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Louis Fréchette, poet of French Canada
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Louis Fréchette, born at Lévis, was a noted polemicist and a prominent French-Canadian poet of the 19th century. His collections Les Fleurs boréales and Les Oiseaux de neige won the Académie française’s Prix Montyon in 1880, and he also wrote the epic La Légende d’un peuple. He sat in the House of Commons for Lévis and later was Clerk of the Quebec Legislative Council.
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Fréchette as described in his designation.
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Louis Fréchette National Historic Person ↗
Parks Canada (Directory of Federal Heritage Designations)
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