tutor to the duke of Bordeaux (Comte de Chambord) at Prague, where he continued to live until 1838. He died at St Geniez on the 12th of December 1841. See Bertrand, _Bibl. Sulpicienne_ (t. ii. 135 sq.; iii. 253) for bibliography, and G. A. Henrion (Paris, 2 vols., 1844) for biography. FRECHETTE, LOUIS HONORE (1839-1908), French-Canadian poet, was born at Levis, Quebec, on the 16th of November 1839, the son of a contractor. He was educated in his native province, and called to the Canadian bar in 1864. He started the _Journal de Levis_, and his revolutionary doctrines compelled him to leave Canada for the United States. After some years spent in journalism at Chicago, he was in 1874 elected as the Liberal candidate to represent Levis in the Canadian parliament. At the elections of 1878 and 1882 he was defeated, and thereafter confined himself to literature. He edited _La Patrie_ and other French papers in the Dominion; and in 1889 was appointed clerk of the Quebec legislative council. He was long a warm advocate of the political union of Canada and the United States, but in later life became less ardent, and in 1897 accepted the honour of C.M.G. from Queen Victoria. He was president of the Royal Society of Canada, and of the Canadian Society of Arts, and received numerous honorary degrees. His works include: _Mes Loisirs_ (1863); _La Voix d'un exile_ (1867), a satire against the Canadian government; _Pele-mele_ (1877); _Les Fleurs boreales_, and _Les Oiseaux de neige_ (1880), crowned by the French academy; _La Legende d'un peuple_ (1887); two historical dramas, _Papineau_ (1880) and _Felix Poutre_ (1880); _La Noel au Canada_ (1900), and several prose works and translations. An exponent of local French sentiment, he won the title of the "Canadian Laureate." He died on the 1st of June 1908.