April 12, 2024
1908 Rare French Canadiana book ~ Frechette Epaves poetiques Veronica
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resents: 1908 Rare French Canadiana book ~ Frechette Epaves poetiques Veronica (English description) Author : Fréchette, Louis Title : Poésies Choisies. Épaves Poétiques.. Veronica. Drame En Cinq Actes Language : Text in French Publisher : Montréal, Librairie Beauchemin, 1908 Size : 10 "X 7 " Pages : 324 pages Binding : Good full cloth binding (overall slightly worn and scuffed) Content : Very good content (bright, tight and clean) The book : Rare edition of this canadiana by famous french canadian poet Louis Frechette. The author : Louis-Honoré Fréchette, CMG (November 16, 1839 – May 31, 1908), was a Canadian poet, politician, playwright, and short story writer. Born in Lévis, Lower Canada, from 1854 to 1860 Fréchette did his classical studies at the Séminaire de Québec, the Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière and at the Séminaire de Nicolet. He later studied law at Université Laval.In 1864, he opened a lawyer's office in Lévis where he founded two newspapers: Le drapeau de Lévis and La Tribune de Levis. He exiled himself in Chicago where he wrote La voix d'un exilé. A number of plays which he wrote during that period were lost in the Great Chicago Fire. Soon after he returned home in 1874, he was elected Member of Parliament in Ottawa. He served in the Canadian House of Commons from 1874 to 1878 as the Liberal Party
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