Adam-Charles-Gustave Desmazures
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Adam-Charles-Gustave Desmazures (1818–1891), also known as Abbé Desmazures, was an author and Catholic priest, active in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Desmazures arrived in Montreal in 1851, where he became vicar of
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and of
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, and helped organize a reading group. He was later priest of St. Sulpice.


Selected works

* ''Souvenirs de la Terre-Sainte : Moueurs et usages des tribes arabes nomades de la Syrie au temps présent'', Paris : imprim. de Pillet aîné, 1845. * ''Le Canada en 1868'', Paris : E. Belin, 868? * ''Eglise de St-François d'Assise'', Montréal : Institut des artisans, 1870. * ''Entretien sur les arts industriels'', Montréal : Institut des artisans, 1870. * ''Souvenirs de la persévérance de Montréal'', Montréal : .n. 1872. * ''Explication des peintures de la chapelle Nazareth'', Montréal : Eusèbe Senécal, imprimeur-éditeur, 872? * ''M. Faillon, prêtre de St. Sulpice : sa vie et ses oeuvres'', Montréal : Bibliothèque paroissiale, 1879. * ''Mr. E. Picard prêtre de Saint-Sulpice'', E. Sénécal, 1886. * ''Colbert et le Canada'', Saint-Cloud : Vve E. Belin et fils, 1889. * ''M. Flavien Martineau, prêtre de St. Sulpice : esquisse biographique'', Montréal : Impr. de J. Lovell, 1889. * ''Cours d'archéologie : les Indes, l'Egypte, l'Assyrie, la Palestine'', Montréal : .n. 1890. * ''Histoire du Chevalier d'Iberville, 1663-1706'', Montréal : J.M. Valois, 1890.


References


Library and Archives Canada



External links

* * 1818 births 1891 deaths Canadian male biographers Canadian non-fiction writers in French 19th-century Canadian biographers 19th-century Canadian male writers 19th-century Canadian Roman Catholic priests {{Quebec-writer-stub