Louis Hémon

Louis Hémon (1880-1913), born in Brest, the son of a professor who became inspector general of public instruction, studied law at the Sorbonne and Annamese at the School of Oriental Languages, then spent nearly nine years in London, as a secretary with shipbrokers and a sports correspondent. He went to Quebec in 1911, became a bilingual stenographer at an insurance company in Montreal, then lived six months in 1912 at Péribonka, with the farmer Samuel Bédard. He died at thirty-two, struck by a train at Chapleau, in Ontario.

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• NovelMaria ChapdelaineLouis Hémon · 1914LiteraturePublic domain