Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau

Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau (1912-1943), born in Montreal, great-grandson of the historian François-Xavier Garneau and cousin of Anne Hébert, spent part of his childhood at the family manor in Sainte-Catherine, near Quebec City. He attended the École des beaux-arts de Montréal and painted, but a heart condition interrupted his studies. A contributor to the journal La Relève, in which he published a few poems, he withdrew to the manor after his only book and published no more verse. He died alone, at thirty-one, of a heart attack during a canoe outing.

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