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- Anne Hébert was born on August 1, 1916 in Sainte-Catherine-de-Fossambault, Québec, Canada. She was a writer, known for La mercière assassinée (1958), Kamouraska (1973) and Les fous de Bassan (1987). She died on January 22, 2000 in Montréal, Québec, Canada.
- RelativesHector de Saint-Denys Garneau.(Cousin)Eugène-Étienne Taché(Grandparent)Clara Juchereau Duchesnay(Grandparent)Étienne-Paschal Taché(Great Grandparent)Sophie Baucher(Great Grandparent)
- She was awarded the C.C. (Companion of the Order of Canada) on June 28, 1968 for her services to Canadian-French Literature.
- Major Québec author, she was born in a bourgeois family and was the cousin of poet Saint-Denys Garneau.
- She was the long time companion of publisher Roger Mame.
- Through her maternal grandfather's family, she was related to Étienne-Paschal Taché, a father of Confederation and to the persons on whose tragedy she based her novel Kamouraska.
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