Jules Fournier

Georges -Jules Fournier ( born August 23, 1884 in Coteau -du -Lac, † April 16, 1918 in Ottawa ) was a Canadian journalist, essayist, translator, and newspaper publisher.

Fournier, who came from a humble background, attended the Collège de Valleyfield, from which he was expelled in 1902 because of a dispute with the director. In 1899 and 1900 appeared the first of his articles in Le Monde illustré. In 1903 he got a job as a reporter for the newspaper La Presse, in the following year he became a columnist for Le Canada. 1905-06 he published a series of articles on the economic, social and religious situation of French Canadians in New England. The resulting 1904 novel Le crime de Lachine appeared the following year in installments in the magazine Le Canada. A preface to the novel, which he dedicated to his critics, friends and enemies, and the prelude to a discussion of the critic Charles from the Halden was published in 1906 in the Revue canadienne. 1907 Founier was under the pseudonym Pierre Beaudry author in the magazine Le Nationaliste his friend Olivar Asselin, 1908 whose editor.

Because satirical posts he was repeatedly prosecuted and came in 1909 for seventeen days in detention. After his release, he was publicly celebrated at the Marché Saint -Jacques in Montreal and published the Souvenirs de prison, where he settled accounts with the conditions of detention. After a short work for Le Devoir, he traveled in 1910 as a correspondent for La Patrie to France, where he among other things, Anatole France, Jules Lemaitre, Frédéric Mistral and Henri Rochefort met and caucuses of Maurice Barres attended.

In 1911, Fournier magazine L' Action in the Posts by Asselin, Arthur Beauchesne, Ferdinand Paradis and Édouard Montpetit, Marcel Dugas, Robert La Roque de Roquebrune, René Chopin, Albert Lozeau and Paul Morin, and extracts from the works of classical and contemporary French authors published. After an unsuccessful action by the editor of La Patrie, Louis -Joseph tart in the first year of the newspaper sued him in 1915 - also unsuccessful - the mayor of Montreal, Médéric Martin, whom he had called a "big thief ".

1916 was Fournier short time Councillor in Montreal, in 1917 he got a job as a translator to the Senate of Canada, but died a few months later dreiunddreißigjährig of pneumonia, possibly also to the Spanish flu.

Several issues experienced Founiers Anthology of poètes canadiens, which was first published in 1913. A collection of his articles, essays, satires and travel reports published by his widow in 1922 under the title Mon ecrir. 1980 donated the Conseil de la Langue Française the Jules Founier Prize for journalists.

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  • Journalist
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  • Novel, epic
  • Translator
  • Born in 1884
  • Died in 1918
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