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Octave Crémazie, national poet of French Canada

Octave Crémazie, published in 1905. Joseph-Octave Crémazie, poète canadien (HS85-10-16598) · Albert Ferlland · Photo source · Photo licence: Public domain. Resized for display; item previews may be cropped. The image remains under the licence shown.

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Octave Crémazie of Québec, a founder of the Institut canadien de Québec, ran a bookstore with his brother that became the cradle of a literary movement inspired by French Romanticism. His poem “Le Drapeau de Carillon” made him French Canada’s national poet; financial trouble exiled him to France in 1862, where he wrote his Journal du siège de Paris.

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Crémazie as described in his designation.

Sources behind this record

Octave Crémazie National Historic Person ↗

Parks Canada (Directory of Federal Heritage Designations)

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