Octave Crémazie

Octave Crémazie (1827-1879), born in Quebec City, went into partnership with his brother Joseph in a bookshop whose back room became the meeting place of the literary movement of 1860, where Abbé Casgrain, the Garneaus, Taché and Fréchette came and went. One of the founders of the Institut canadien de Québec, he was its president in 1857-1858. The business declined: he covered his debts with forged signatures and fled to France in 1862 under the name Jules Fontaine. He spent more than sixteen years there without writing any more verse, leaving letters in which he doubts that a Canadian literature can excel. He died in Le Havre.

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• PoetryLe Drapeau de CarillonOctave Crémazie · 1858not translated into EnglishLiterature