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Louis-Honoré Fréchette

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in Montreal, whose writing he had much admired; indeed the two would remain friends, exchanging works and favorite books. In the following year Twain would toast Fréchette at an American welcoming banquet in
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Fréchette returned to Quebec in 1871, where he was a Liberal candidate for Lévis in the provincial elections that year; he was not elected. However, in 1874 he was elected Member of Parliament in
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Our national poet, Louis Frechette, a friend of Mark Twain's exchanged books, and commented on each other's work, as if it was of the same quality
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In 1991, Louis Honoré Fréchette Public School, a French immersion, opened in Thornhill, Ontario.
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where he began writing full-time, having inherited the wealth of his aunt when she died.
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In 1864, he opened a lawyer's office in Lévis where he founded two newspapers:
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Charles Bruce Sissons; Richard De Brisay, eds. (1975). "Louis Fréchette".
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Canada Post issued a postage stamp in his honour on July 7, 1989.
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Canadian Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George
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Louis-Honoré Fréchette – Parliament of Canada biography
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Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec
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Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002: 395–97.
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Louis Fréchette
Fréchette in 1900
Lévis
Lower Canada
short story writer
CMG
Prix Montyon
Académie française
Lévis
Lower Canada
Séminaire de Québec
Université Laval
Great Chicago Fire
Ottawa
House of Commons of Canada
Liberal Party of Canada
Lévis
Montreal
Montyon Prize
Académie française
Queen's College, Kingston
Mark Twain
Holyoke
Order of St Michael and St George
Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery
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1872 Canadian federal election
Lévis

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