Honoré Beaugrand

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name = Honoré Beaugrand
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order = 18th Mayor of Montreal
term_start = 1885
term_end = 1887
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predecessor = Jean-Louis Beaudry
successor = John Abbott
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birth_date = 24 March 1848
birth_place = Saint-Joseph-de-Lanoraie, Lower Canada
death_date = death date and age|1906|10|7|1848|3|24
death_place = Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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profession = author, journalist, publisher, soldier
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Honoré Beaugrand (24 March, 1848 – 7 October1906) was a Quebec journalist, politician, author and folklorist, born in Berthier County, Quebec.

As a young graduate from military school Beaugrand joined the French military forces under General Bazaine in Mexico, supporting the ill-fated Emperor Maximilian of Mexico. He returned with those troops to France after the fall of Chapultepec and Maximilian's execution. After some months he moved to New Orleans in 1868 and became a journalist. Subsequently he wrote for U.S. newspapers in St. Louis, Boston, Chicago, and Lowell and Fall River, Massachusetts.

In 1878, he returned to Canada and founded the newspaper "La Patrie" in Montreal to take the place of "Le National" which had recently folded. It ceased publication in 1957, after 78 years. He made a name as a political writer and reporter, and in 1885 received the cross of the French Légion d'honneur.

He become a freemason in 1873 and took part in the foundation of Montreal Émancipation lodge in 1897.

He was elected mayor of Montreal in 1885. A street in Montreal and a station on the green line of the Montreal metro are named in his honour. He is most famous in Quebec for writing down the legend of the "Chasse-galerie", published in 1891 in "La chasse galerie: légendes canadiennes", which also included "Le loup-garou," "La bête à grand’queue," "Macloune," and "Le père Louison."

Publications

* "Anita"
* "Jeanne la fileuse"
* "Contes Canadiens"
* "La Chasse-galerie et autres récits"

External links

* [http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=6548 Biography at the "Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online"]
* [http://www.agora.qc.ca/mot.nsf/Dossiers/Honore_Beaugrand Extensive dossier on Beaugrand at "L'Encyclopédie de l'Agora"] (in French)
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