Alain Grandbois, a Quebec poet, was born to Henri Grandbois, a physician, and Bernadette Rousseau Grandbois, at Saint-Casimir de Portneuf on 25 May 1900. He was from an old family of explorers, the Guilbeaults, who came to New France around 1635. One family member was known as Guilbeault de Grandbois, and the nickname came to designate the family branch to which Grandbois belonged. Grandbois studied first at the convent of the Sisters of Providence, then at the college of the Christian Brothers; he was not a particularly assiduous pupil. In 1911 he entered the Collège de Montréal, only to leave shortly after in order to make a trip across Canada. Upon his return he studied briefly at the Séminaire de Québec and at St. Dunstan's University, Prince Edward Island. He received his B.A., enrolled in the Faculty of Law at the Université...