21 August 2014

Octave Crémazie in Québec city

'LA SOCIÉTÉ DES POÈTES A FAIT
POSER CETTE PLAQUETTE EN 1932
SUR LA MAISON JADIS OCCUPÉE
PAR LA LIBRAIRIE CRÉMAZIE'

A likeness of the head, along with dates of the poet Octave Cremazie (1827–79), are on this plaque erected in 1932 to indicate that Crémazie's bookshop was here on rue de la Fabrique.

And on La Fresque des Québécois, a huge mural in Vieux-Québec, is a representation of Crémazie's bookshop, which among other things, is selling François Ricard's biography Gabrielle Roy: une vie (1972):


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