Arthur Buies

Arthur Buies (Montreal, January 24th, 1840 - Quebec January 26th, 1901) was a Journaliste Québécois. After being itself lengthily opposite with the Catholic Clergy , it adopted the cause of the colonization of the Curé Labelle.

Biography

He is the child of a Canadian-Frenchwoman and a Écossais. Following the death of his mother, it is raised by its maternal great-aunts.

A detail concerning the family of Buies seems to be completely unperceived past. Indeed, the mother of Buies, Marie-Antoinette-Léocadie d' Estimauville, born in Quebec on March 13rd, 1811, was the sister of Joséphine-Éléonore d' Estimauville, born on August 30th, 1816. July 16th, 1834, the latter married with Quebec Louis-Paschal-Achilles Taché, owner of part of the seigniory of Kamouraska. This one was to be assassinated by the lover of Éléonore d' Estimauville, Doctor George Holmes, on January 31st, 1839. This history inspired Anne Hébert for her novel Kamouraska.

In its youth, Buies is excluded for indiscipline from two schools, then, to the sixteen years age, is sent in Guyana near his/her remarié father.

In 1856, it spends a few months to Dublin and settles with Paris, where it studies with the Lycée Saint-Louis. It joint briefly with the red Shirts of Giuseppe Garibaldi. In 1862, it goes back to Montreal.

He becomes member of the Canadian Institut of Montreal, which gathers the intellectual elements most dynamic of Quebec. Its members are anticlericals and in favor of the Separation of the Church and the State. They are also favorable to obligatory primary education, while being admirors of the Republic étatsunienne and its democratic ideal.

Buies, for its part, is opposed savagely to Évêché of Montreal, just like to the project of the Canadian Confédération. The historian Jacques G. Ruelland affirms that these writings of the time are with strong maconnic tendency , whereas it took the defense of the brothers.

In 1868, after a passage of a few months in Paris, it launches a satirical newspaper, the Canadian Lantern , which disappears in March 1869. During the Years 1870, it publishes many chronicles, for the majority available today in three collections. They will ensure literary notoriety to him.

In the Years 1880, it writes opuscules for the ministry for Colonization, thus carrying out two of its dearer desires: to make “scientific” work and to travel everywhere to Quebec, from which he sings at the same time the potential beauty and richnesses.

The following decade, its health declines and its family knows mourning. It has financial problems, but continues nevertheless to promote colonization. It continues to write criticisms of the religious company directed by the Church. However, the historian Gerard Tougas could affirm that it had never really left Catholicism.

He dies in Quebec on January 26th, 1901, two days after his sixty and unième birthday and rests, since, with the Cimetière Our-Lady-with-Belmont with Holy-Foy (Quebec), with some steps of the tomb of his nephew, the painter Edmond Lemoine (1877-1922).

Quotations

“ Whoever lived in Quebec wants to die there. ” - Arthur Buies

“ It does not have there a lower race, but there are in the world people which do all in his capacity to show that this race exists, and these people, it is us, and this race, it would be ours. ” - Arthur Buies, the Lantern, 1868-1869

“ But it is a shame which to be Canadian! which love can you have for this tinsel of nationality, if you let everyone spit above? ” - Arthur Buies, the Lantern, 1868-1869

“ This abstraction of ourselves was thorough so far today it became our nature to be, that we do not design of it an other, that our eyes are closed obviously, that we do not even see the level of lowering where we are descended, and which we regard as a single good fortune not to have more the load of our destinies. ” - Arthur Buies, the Lantern, 1868-1869

“ I do not love the people who go to the mass with large books that they hold with two hands, straightforwardly supported on the épigastre, and which looks on all the sides to see whether they are noticed. I know a woman who thus leaves five or six times per day Our-Lady-of-Pity, with a book which covers all the chest to him. If I re-examine it, I swear to make him an affront, and to ask to him whether it can read. False piety always seeks to be shown, because it is not what it appears. ” - Arthur Buies, the Lantern, 1868-1869

“ Me, I love the women passionately; this is why I am happy of all the occasions to say evil of it. ” - Arthur Buies, the Lantern, 1868-1869

“ the man will be free only when the woman is émancipée. ” - Arthur Buies, the Lantern, 1868-1869

“ That the woman remains light; it is needed to compensate for the heaviness of the man. But that this lightness evening that of the spirit, the grace, of the taste, the side which supplements us, the nuance which harmonizes, the color of the drawing, the glare of our qualities, the ray on the dark and hard bottom. ” - Arthur Buies, the Lantern, 1868-1869

“ the lawyers and the doctors pullulates: two extremely useful classes. The ones kill, the others ruin. ” - Arthur Buies, the Lantern, 1868-1869

“ philosophy, pretentious word, is only the smoke of our pride; science alone is true philosophy, it only door the torch in the night which surrounds us and learns how to us not to judge the being that we do not know, but to study it. ” - Arthur Buies, Chronicles

“ All young vicar, who aspires to a lucrative cure, dreams day and night with the number of prohibitions which it will have the chance to pronounce one day. All young priest who takes up duties starts initially by seeking around him if it does not have some book to prohibit, some newspaper to be proscribed. If it is one month without finding some, it becomes absolutely disillusioned on its own account and loses any ambition legitimates to make one day a serious bishop. ” - Arthur Buies, “Prohibitions and censures”, in Canada-Review, February 11th, 1893

“ It cannot be question any more from now on obliteration or disappearance of nationality Canadian-Frenchwoman. But it is not enough for her to continue to live, to be maintained with its specific character and its qualities, it is necessary, much more, that she is maintained with the height other nationalities and that she is not satisfied more than one place in the shade, when all the others take theirs with the sun ” - Arthur Buies, the Young Barbarians, 1893

Works

'' Chroniques I: moods and whims '' with the editions of the electronic Library of Quebec
'' Chroniques II: voyages, etc, etc '' with the editions of the electronic Library of Quebec
'' Petites chronicles for 1877 '' with the editions of '' the electronic Library of Quebec '' to the editions of the electronic Library of Quebec
'' Lettres on Canada '' with the editions of the electronic Library of Quebec
'' isolated Chroniques '' with the editions of the electronic Library of Quebec
'' the Lantern '' with the editions of the electronic Library of Quebec
'' Réminiscences/the young barbarians '' with the editions of the electronic Library of Quebec

Sources

Arthur Buies, Chronic I, II , Presses of the University of Montreal, 1986,1991, edition criticizes by Francis Parmentier.
Arthur Buies, Correspondence (1855-1901) , Guerin, 1993, published by Francis Parmentier.
Laurent Mailhot, Anthology of Arthur Buies , Hurtubise HMH, 1978.

External bonds

Biography of the biographical Dictionary of Canada in line

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