Saint-Louis Square
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Saint Louis Square is an urban square in Montreal's Plateau Mont Royal. Its eastern edge fronts onto Saint Denis Street, a major north–south artery. Square Saint Louis Street runs along both the squar
Saint Louis Square, looking east from Laval Street, fountain in the distance, 2005.
Fontaine du Square Saint-Louis
Detail of Victorian row houses facing the square, fall 2011.
Émile Nelligan
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Émile Nelligan was a French Canadian Symbolist poet influenced by Romanticism. Although he almost entirely ceased writing poetry after being institutionalized at the age of nineteen, Nelligan remains
Saint-Louis Square
…assembled to create a customized composition. A bust of Octave Crémazie was unveiled on June 24, 1906, designed by Louis-Philippe Hébert, near the home of Émile Nelligan, which faces the square. Nelligan himself was honoured with a bust in the square 99 years later, on June 7, 2005, designed by Roseline Granet…
Nelligan in 1899
Manuscript of Le Vaisseau d'Or (The Ship of Gold)
Nelligan institutionalized at the Retraite Saint-Benoît-Labre, ca. 1919-1920
Nelligan bust in Saint-Louis Square, Montreal