Born at Québec, this illustrious poet was a founder of L'Institut Canadien de Québec. Crémazie and his brother Joseph ran a bookstore which became the cradle of a literary movement inspired by French romanticism. Drapeau de Carillon, one of some 40 poems he composed, established him as French Canada's national poet. In 1862, financial difficulties exiled him to France for the rest of his life. His talents as a writer shine through in his letters home and in his Journal du siège de Paris. Crémazie epitomizes the French-Canadian man of letters of the 19th century.