Philippe Aubert de Gaspé, wire

Philippe-Ignace-François Aubert de Gaspé (Quebec, April 8th, 1814 - Halifax, March 7th, 1841) was a Canadian writer . He wrote the first novel French Canadian published in Canada (the writings of News-France, where the letters are rare, were published in France). The novel is entitled the influence of a book and its publication marked the beginning of the novel in the French Canadian literature.

Biography

He was the son of Philippe Aubert de Gaspé, lawyer, civil servant and future lord usufructuary of Port-Jolly, and Susanne Allison. From 1827 to 1832, it made studies with the seminar of Nicolet. Until 1836, he lived in Quebec, where he was Sténographe and Journaliste with the newspapers Quebec Mercury and the Canadian . In 1835, a dispute with the deputy Edmund Bailey O' Callaghan was worth a judgment in justice to him. In 1836, it had to leave Quebec after having caused the evacuation of the Parliament by depositing a bottle puante there. It then resided at the field of its family, with Saint-Jean-Port-Pretty, where, undoubtedly with the assistance of his father, it wrote his novel the Influence of a book , published in 1837. The sudden novel of the wild attacks in certain newspapers, which discouraged from the young writer continuing a literary career. He lived then Halifax where his/her friend Thomas Pyke had found work in a newspaper to him. He died there suddenly of disease on March 7th, 1841, at the 26 years age, single person.

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External bonds

  • the Philippe Aubert de Gaspé, father and wire, in the biographical Dictionary of Canada

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