Nérée Beauchemin

French-Canadian poet and physician

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Born:: Feb. 20, 1850, Yamachiche, Que., Can.

Died:: June 29, 1931, Trois-Rivières, Que. (aged 81)

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Nérée Beauchemin (born Feb. 20, 1850, Yamachiche, Que., Can.—died June 29, 1931, Trois-Rivières, Que.) was a French Canadian poet and physician who was a prominent poet of Le Terroir (French: “The Soil”) school of Quebec regionalist poetry.

A traditionalist noted for his perfection of poetic form, Beauchemin drew on the religion and culture of Quebec and on a love of the Canadian landscape for his material. He published only two collections of poems, Les Floraisons matutinales (1897; “The Morning Efflorescence”) and Patrie intime (1928; “Intimate Homeland”).

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