Biographie DeHaerne Armand-Michel-Desire
Armand de Haerne est né à Turnhout en Belgique le 11 novembre 1850, dans une famille noble des Flandres. Il est le troisième enfant de Louis De Haerne et de Mathilde Marie Ghislaine Rooman. Il a été soldat sous Napoléon III. À 17 ans, il s’engage comme zouave pontifical. Il sert dans la garnison française que Napoléon envoie à Rome pour servir les intérêts du Pape Pie IX. Puis il mène une vie de noble et de dandy. Il émigre au Canada en 1883.
Sa première épouse décède avant son départ pour le Canada.Le 3 décembre 1883, à l’église Saint-Philémon de Stoke, Armand Michel Désiré Marie Ghislaine de Haerne, homme de lettres et commissaire d’arrondissement en disponibilité en Belgique épouse Marie-Anne Biron. Les époux avaient reçu la permission de monseigneur Antoine Racine, évêque de Sherbrooke, de contracter mariage en temps prohibé et fait publier trois bans. Ensemble, ils auront un fils, Maurice Hercule Fernand de Haerne, né le 23 avril 1893.
Armand de Haerne sera traducteur à la Chambre des Communes. Il collaborera à différents journaux dont L’Écho des Bois-Francs. Il écrira plusieurs contes dont « Jean le maudit ou le Revenant sous la glace », un conte fantastique.
Le 1er octobre 1894, à l’église Ste-Victoire de Victoriaville, Armand de Haerne épouse, Marie-Emma Richard, fille d’Elzéar Richard, marchand, et d’Émilie Auger. Il décède le 18 août et est inhumé le 20 août 1902 dans le cimetière de Sainte-Victoire de Victoriaville à l’âge de 51 ans, huit mois et 22 jours.
Note : On peut lire «Jean le maudit ou le Revenant sous la glace» et «Nésime le tueur», deux nouvelles inédites d’Armand de Haerne dans l'anthologie du XIXe siècle fantastique en Amérique française, paru sous la direction de Claude Janelle aux éditions Alire en 1999 (Cote à la bibliothèque : C843.0876609 D619).
(Source Mémoire vivante, Société d'Histoire et de généalogie de Victoriaville)
Armand-Michel-Desire-Marie-Ghislaine de Haerne, the second son of Louis de Harne,
was born in Turnhout, Belgium on Nov. 11, 1850. At the age of 17, he
became a soldier under Napoleon III and was stationed in the French
garrison that Napoleon kept in Rome to serve the interests of Pope Pius
IX. When Napoleon declared war on the Prussians in August, 1870, to
initiate the onset of the Franco-Prussian War, the French were forced to
abandon this garrison, and the subsequent occupation of it by Italian
nationalists is viewed by many historians as the start of the modern
Italian state. After the war, Armand married his first wife and became
the commissioner of the arrondissement (administrative district) of
Termonde. He is said to have received a large grant of land, but
apparently gave this away to a Maurice Richard after the death of his
wife, probably in 1882. When Armand's brother Emil lost the family
estate in a business transaction about the same time, Armand estranged
himself from his brother, and emigrated the following year, bankrupt by
one account, to Canada, where he married his second wife Marie Ann Biron
in Stoke (Centre), Quebec on Dec. 2, 1883. Marie, who had been born in
Stoke on Dec. 25, 1860, was the daughter of Antoine Jean Biron. Armand
and Marie were together only a few years, as she died in Stoke on Dec.
10, 1885, probably from complications related to the birth of their
second daughter. Armand and his surviving daughter Sara Mathilde
continued to live in Montreal, where he worked for awhile as a
translator in the House of Commons, and also became a writer of short
stories, some of which dealt with werewolves and vampires. His first
story, "The Devil Dance", appeared in the Canadian Evening News of
January-February, 1886. His best known stories "Jean the Cursed" (or
"Back Under the Ice") and "Nesime the Killer" appeared sometime later,
probably before 1890. He married his third wife Maria Emma Victoria
Richard, who was also his sister-in-law, in Victoriaville, Quebec on
Oct. 1, 1894, when she was 21-years old and he was almost 23 years her
senior. Emma, who had been born in Victoriaville on May 18, 1873, was
the daughter of Elzear Richard (Rechard) and Emelie Auger. She was also
the sister of Adelia (Delle) Richard (b. 1860), who had married Marie
Biron's brother in 1884. Armand eventually became the editor of a
newspaper; and he died in Victoriaville on Aug. 18, 1902, where there is
a large monument on his grave in the Sainte-Victoire parish graveyard.
His wife Emma remarried two more times after his passing - second to
Joel Laurendeau on Oct. 18, 1905 at Ste-Victoire, Victoriaville, and
third to Francois-Xavier LeBlanc on Feb. 12, 1916 at the
Cathedral-de-Montreal in Quebec.
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From Armand's first marriage to Marie Biron were born:
Sara Mathilde de Haerne, who was born in Montreal on
Sept. 17, 1884; and married Alfred Prendergast in Stoke (Centre), Quebec
in 1905. Their daughter Marie Olive Aurelie Emilie Prendergast was born
in Stoke (Centre) on Oct. 5, 1906, and reportedly lived to an old age;
whereas Sara Mathilde died in Montreal while Marie was still a little
girl on April 22, 1910.
Marie Celina Louisa de Haerne, who was born in Montreal on Nov. 29, 1885, and died there less than a year later, being buried on August 1, 1886.
From Armand's second marriage to (Maria) Emma Richard were born:
Marie Blanche Gislande de Haerne, who was born July 15, 1895 and died in 1897.
Fernand Hercule de Haerne (1897-1980),
(source History of Family de Harne in Canada)
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