Antoine Gérin-Lajoie

Antoine Gérin-Lajoie (1824-1882), born in Yamachiche, the son of a farmer and the eldest of a large family, wrote in 1842, at the seminary of Nicolet, a song about the exiled patriots of 1837-1838 that ranks among the best-known ballads of French Canada. A lawyer in 1848 and a journalist at La Minerve, he entered the civil service as a translator, then became assistant librarian of Parliament, in Toronto, Quebec and then Ottawa. Co-founder of two journals of the Quebec literary movement, historian of responsible government, father of the sociologist Léon Gérin, he died in Ottawa.

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• NovelJean RivardJean Rivard, le défricheurAntoine Gérin-Lajoie · 1862LiteraturePublic domain