Pierre Petitclair, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Pierre Petitclair

French-Canadian writer

Date of Birth: 12-Oct-1813

Date of Death: 15-Aug-1860

Profession: writer, poet, playwright

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Pierre Petitclair (12 October 1813 – 15 August 1860) was one of the first native French Canadian writers.
He wrote two popular plays of the 19th century, La Donation (1842) and Une partie de campagne (1857), the latter notable for using rural québécois speech for the first time on stage.
He also composed a number of poems throughout his life. He started out in studies of law, but flourished as an artist while working as a copyist for the notary Archibald Campbell.
During this time he wrote his first play, never staged, Griphon ou la vengeance d'un valet, perhaps the first French-Canadian play.