Germaine Guèvremont

Germaine Guèvremont (1893-1968), born Grignon in Saint-Jérôme, the daughter of a lawyer and cousin of Claude-Henri Grignon, married Hyacinthe Guèvremont, a native of Sorel, and lived in Sorel from 1920 to 1935; her in-laws introduced her to the islands of Lac Saint-Pierre. A correspondent for the Montreal Gazette and a journalist at the Courrier de Sorel, she contributed tales to the monthly Paysana from 1938 and published her first book in 1942. Elected to the Académie canadienne-française in 1948, she died in Montreal.

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