Frechette,

Frechette, LOUIS HONORÉ, LL.D., the 'Canadian laureate,' was born at Levis, Quebec, 16th November 1839, called to the bar in 1864, and, after five years' residence in Chicago, elected to the Dominion parliament in 1874. He has edited several journals, and published some prose works, plays, and translations into French; but his important productions have been his several volumes of poems, two of which were crowned by the French Academy in 1880. The others include Mes Loisirs (1863), La Voix d'un Exile (1869), Pèle-mêle (1877), Les Oubliés (1886), and Voix d'Outre-mer (1886), which have proved their author the most sympathetic of the interpreters of Canadian scenery and of French-Canadian traditions and aspirations.