Faucher de Saint-Maurice

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Narcisse Henri Édouard Faucher (April 18, 1844 – April 1, 1897) was a Canadian author, journalist, army officer, and politician who published books under the name Faucher de Saint-Maurice.

1 Life
2 Works
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[edit] Life

Faucher was born in Quebec. His father was seigneur of Beaumont, Vincennes, and Montapeine. He was educated at the seminary of Quebec and at the Collège de Sainte Anne de la Pocatière. He was interested in a military career.

In 1864 he went to play a part in the conflict in Mexico and became a captain in the 4th Mexican sharpshooters, and afterward was aide-de-camp to General the Viscount Courtois Roussel d'Hurbal. He served through the war, being in eleven battles, thirty-two minor engagements, and at the sieges of Oaxaca and Satillo, at the latter of which he was made prisoner and sentenced to be shot, but was afterward exchanged. While in Mexico, he met Honoré Beaugrand.

He returned to Canada in 1866, and was for the next fourteen years a clerk of the legislative council of the province of Quebec. In 1874 he began putting more effort into his writing. In 1881 he was elected a representative for Bellechasse to the Quebec legislative assembly.

He was a commissioner in 1881 from the province of Quebec at the third Geographical Congress and Exhibition in Venice, and while in Europe was created a chevalier of the Legion of Honor for services rendered to France in the Canadian press. He also had been created a knight of the Imperial order of Guadaloupe by Maximilian, and received the medal of the Mexican campaign from Napoleon III.

He was editor of "Le journal de Quebec" (1883-5) then wrote for "Le Canadien" (1885-6). He contributed largely to the newspaper press in France, Canada, and the United States.

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De Québec à Mexico (1874)
A la Brunante (1874)
Choses et autres (1874)
De Tribord à bâbord (1877)
A la Veillee (1877)
Deaux ans au Mexique (1878)
Relation de ce qui s'est passé lors des fouilles faites par ordre du gouvernement dans une partie des fondations du Collège des jésuites de Québec (1879)
L'abbé C.-H. Laverdière.
Les Iles: Promenades dans le golfe Saint-Laurent (1886?)
En route; sept jours dans les provinces Maritimes (1888)
Loin du pays, souvenirs d'Europe, dAfrique et dAmérique (1889)
La question du jour: resterons-nous français? (1890)