Napoleon Aubin
Napoleon Aubin (1812 - 1890) was a Journaliste, a Musicien and a lithographer Québécois of origin Suisse.
Few things are known on its youth, but it was marked by the ideas progressists with Geneva. It arrives at New York in 1829 and at Quebec in 1835.
Satirist, it writes in favor of the Patriotes in the review Odd the which it had founded. He spends 53 days in prison to have published the poems of Joseph-Guillaume Barthe addressed to the prisoners of the Bermuda.
Liberal and democrat, it shares the point of view of Etienne Parent according to which the rebels would have gone too far.
In 1847, it publishes the Manifeste addressed to the people of the Canada by the constitutional Committee of the reform and progress , moment when its ideas convergent with Louis-Joseph Papineau.
Aubin is succesisvement writer for Minerve , the Canadian , the Friend of the people and the Platform . In 1865, it launches taken care of the father Bonsens and is established with Montreal in 1866.
Aubin will become member of the Canadian Institut of Montreal in 1869. It is used as Swiss consul with Montreal as 1875 to its death in 1890. Calviniste, its praise funeral is pronounced by Pasteur presbytérien.
Its biography was published by Jean-Paul Tremblay in 1972.
A foundation bears its name, the Fondation Aubin, affiliated with the Research center Stanley Bréhaut Ryerson.
External bond
- Biography of the biographical Dictionary of Canada in line
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