Patrice Lacombe
See also: Lacombe
Patrice Lacombe (February 20th 1807 - July 6th 1863) was a writer and a Canadian notary . Its major work is the novel the paternal Earth .
Born with Oka, he studied with the Collège of Montreal of 1816 with 1825, where he excelled in French and Latin essay. Become notary in 1830, it works with the service of the Sulpiciens by counting their properties. In 1835, it marries Léocadie Boucher, with which it does not have a child. Known to have encouraged the letters, it is described by those which know it like a gracious and sizeable being.
In 1846, Lacombe makes appear in the literary Album of the Canadian Revue a novel, the paternal Earth , whose significant character is to have founded the literary kind called of the Roman of the soil, i.e. the Canadian agricultural novel. The novel of Lacombe is also a witness of the incipient Canadian literature, which whereas had not produced, inter alia, the influence of a book of Philippe Aubert de Gaspé, wire and the Girl of the brigand of Eugene the Rider.
The novel the paternal Earth is then included in the National directory of James Huston, an anthology of the Canadian literature of the time. The text then will know several successive editions.
By commenting on the text, Maurice Lemire made the point that the writings of Lacombe have more originality than those of Pierre-Georges Boucher of Boucherville or Joseph Doutre, which preferred to imitate the large French novelists like Honore de Balzac and Eugene Sue. The author who will be most clearly influenced by Lacombe is Damase Potvin, which will publish novels close to the soil several years later.
Patrice Labombe dies in Montreal the July 6th 1863.