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Life

Faucher was born in Quebec. Quebec (kwɨˈbɛk His father was seigneur of Beaumont, Vincennes, and Montapeine. He was educated at the seminary of Quebec and at the Collège de Sainte Anne de la Pocatière. He was interested in a military career.

In 1864 he went to play a part in the conflict in Mexico and became a captain in the 4th Mexican sharpshooters, and afterward was aide-de-camp to General the Viscount Courtois Roussel d'Hurbal. The French intervention in Mexico, also known as the Maximilian Affair and The Franco-Mexican War, was an invasion of Mexico by the army of the He served through the war, being in eleven battles, thirty-two minor engagements, and at the sieges of Oaxaca and Satillo, at the latter of which he was made prisoner and sentenced to be shot, but was afterward exchanged. Oaxaca is the name of both a state in Mexico and that state's capital city While in Mexico, he met Honoré Beaugrand. Honoré Beaugrand ( 24 March, 1848 &ndash 7 October[[ 906]] was a Quebec journalist politician author and folklorist born in Berthier

He returned to Canada in 1866, and was for the next fourteen years a clerk of the legislative council of the province of Quebec. In 1874 he began putting more effort into his writing. In 1881 he was elected a representative for Bellechasse to the Quebec legislative assembly.

He was a commissioner in 1881 from the province of Quebec at the third Geographical Congress and Exhibition in Venice, and while in Europe was created a chevalier of the Legion of Honor for services rendered to France in the Canadian press. He also had been created a knight of the Imperial order of Guadaloupe by Maximilian, and received the medal of the Mexican campaign from Napoleon III. There were three Imperial Orders of the Mexican Empire created to reward those subjects loyal to the Monarchy during the two periods of the Mexican Empire.

He was editor of "Le journal de Quebec" (1883-5) then wrote for "Le Canadien" (1885-6). He contributed largely to the newspaper press in France, Canada, and the United States.

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