Phillipe-Ignace François Aubert de Gaspé, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetPhillipe-Ignace François Aubert de Gaspé
Canadian journalist
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Place of Birth: Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
About Phillipe-Ignace François Aubert de Gaspé
- Philippe-Ignace-Francois Aubert de Gaspé, or simply Philippe Aubert de Gaspé (1814–7 March 1841) was a Canadian writer and is credited with writing the first French Canadian novel. Philippe-Ignace-Francois was tutored by his father Philippe-Joseph and studied at the seminary of Nicolet.
- He worked as a journalist at the Quebec Mercury and Le Canadien.
- He was sentenced to a month in prison in November 1835 after clashing with Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, who had questioned his integrity.
- In February of the following year he unleashed a stink bomb of asafoetida at the National Assembly of Quebec. While lying-low at his father's house he began writing his novel L'influence d'un livre.
- The story is made up of various fictionalised historical events, legends and folksongs which show the influence of father's recollections.
- Despite now being recognised as a major landmark in Canadian literature the book was not well received and Philippe died shortly afterwards in Halifax where he was buried in front of the present-day Spring Garden Road Public Library.
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