Louvigny de Montigny
Louvigny Testard de Montigny (pseudonym: Carolus Glatigny ; born December 1, 1876 in Saint-Jérôme , † May 20, 1955 in Ottawa ) was a Canadian journalist, writer and critic.
De Montigny attended the Collège Sainte-Marie and studied law at the Université Laval in Montreal. He then turned to journalism and founded the magazines Les débats (1899) and Gazette municipale , of which he became editor-in-chief. In 1894 he was one of the founders of the École littéraire de Montréal . He published poems in various Canadian magazines and wrote several prose works and plays, including Rigodon du diable (1898) and Les boules de neige . From 1910 until his death in 1955 he worked as a translator for the Senate of Canada .
In 1916 he played a major role in the publication of the novel Maria Chapdelaine by Louis Hémon , who died in an accident in 1913. In 1925 he was appointed Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur . He wrote studies and essays on Hémons novel, which appeared in 1937 under the title La Revanche de Maria Chapdelaine . For this work he was awarded a prize by the Académie française . His examination of the problems of the French language in Canada resulted in writings such as La langue française au Canada (1916) and his essay Au pays du Québec , for which he received the Prix Ernesta Stern of the Société des gens de lettres in 1945 . In the same year he also received the Prix de la langue française of the Académie française.
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- William H. New: "Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada" , University of Toronto Press, 2002, ISBN 9780802007612 , p. 751
- Université de Montréal - Montigny, Louvigny de
- Louis Hémon - Un voyage dans sas archives - La publication en roman de Maria Chapdelaine
- Bibliothèque et Archives nationales Québec - Louvigny De Montigny Fund
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Montigny, Louvigny de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Montigny, Louvigny Testard de (full name); Glatigny, Carolus (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian journalist, writer and critic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 1, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint-Jerome |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 20, 1955 |
| Place of death | Ottawa |