Louis Hémon
Louis Hémon ( born October 12, 1880 in Brest in Brittany, † July 8, 1913 ) was a French writer.
Hémon received a very privileged education at the Lycée Montaigne and the Lycée Louis -le- Grand in Paris. After his 1901 degree in law at the Sorbonne Louis Hémon changed his career path and went to England, where he worked as a bilingual secretary. In 1911 he emigrated to Canada, where he works alongside office jobs (insurance Secretary) on farms in the French-Canadian wilderness, at that time, far away from modernization and industrialization located. Here Hémon wrote his most famous work, Maria Chapdelaine.
On July 8 1913 Louis Hémon dies in Canada when he is captured by a railroad.
See also: List of Canadian writers.