Joseph Quesnel

Joseph Quesnel (15 ga Nuwamba 1746 - 2 ko 3 ga Yulin 1809) ya kasance mawaki ne na Kanada, mawaƙi kuma marubucin wasan kwaikwayo. Daga cikin ayyukansa akwai wasan kwaikwayo guda biyu, Colas da Colinette da Lucas da Cécile; wanda aka dauka a matsayin wasan kwaikwayo na farko na Kanada kuma mai yiwuwa na Arewacin Amurka.

 Rayuwa ta farko da ilimi 
An haifi Quesnel a Saint-Malo, Faransa, ɗan na uku na Isaac Quesnel de La Rivaudais (1712-1779), ɗan kasuwa mai arziki, da matarsa Pélagie-Jeanne-Marguerite Duguen .  Ya yi karatu a Collège Saint-Louis (1766).

 Rayuwa da aiki 
Quesnel ya shiga jirgin ruwa na Faransa kuma ya tashi zuwa Pondicherry da Madagascar, ya yi tafiya a Afirka, da Caribbean. Ya shiga kasuwancin bayi na Atlantic. A shekara ta 1768, a matsayin mataimakin na biyu a cikin jirgin Mesny, ya tashi zuwa Cabinda (Angola ta zamani) inda aka sayi "Blacks na kowane zamani" 514 kuma aka kai su Haiti ta zamani inda aka sayar da su, a cewar bayanan tarihin Faransa da aka nakalto a cikin wani labari game da shi. Ya ɗauki violin tare da shi kuma ya karanta ayyukan marubuta wasan kwaikwayo na Faransa.

A shekara ta 1779, Quesnel ya tashi zuwa New York a matsayin kwamandan jirgin yaki na Faransa wanda Birtaniya ta kama. An kai Quesnel zuwa Halifax, Nova Scotia kuma an ba shi izinin zama a Boucherville, kusa da Montreal, Quebec .  Ya auri Marie-Josephte Deslandes a can kuma ya zama abokan kasuwanci tare da Maurice-Régis Blondeau, sabon mijin surukinsa. Ya zama mai arziki ta hanyar cinikin bayi.

Quesnel ya buga ayyukan wasan kwaikwayo da yawa, ciki har da Colas da Colinette, wanda aka rubuta a 1788 kuma aka fara yi a 1790,  da Lucas da Cecile;   ya kuma rubuta waka; waƙarsa da aka fi sani da ita ce "L'Épître à M. Labadie".

Baya ga waƙoƙi da yawa, ya kirkiro waƙoƙoƙi masu tsarki don cocin Ikklisiya na Montreal,  da wasu motets, kuma ya rubuta ɗan gajeren rubutu game da fasaha mai ban mamaki (1805). Ya kafa kuma ya kasance daga cikin ƙungiyar Montreal's Théàtre de Societé .  

Ya mutu daga pleurisy a Montreal a cikin 1809 watanni da yawa bayan ya nutse cikin Kogin Saint Lawrence don ya ceci yaro da ke nitsewa.

Quesnel shine batun wasan kwaikwayo mai ban dariya Le Père des amours, wanda Eugène Lapierre ya rubuta a 1942.

 Iyali 
Ɗan Quesnel Jules Maurice Quesnel ya yi tafiya tare da Simon Fraser a kan tafiyarsa zuwa Tekun Pacific; an sanya masa sunan garin Quesnel, British Columbia. Wani ɗa Frédéric-Auguste ya zama lauya kuma ɗan siyasa; 'yarsa Mélanie ta auri lauya Côme-Séraphin Cherrier .

 Ayyuka 

 Colas da Colinette, a cikin wasan kwaikwayo (1788) 
 Lucas da Cecile, wani wasan kwaikwayo
 L'Anglomania, wasan kwaikwayo a cikin aya 
 Les Républicains Français, wasan kwaikwayo a cikin layi, daga baya aka buga shi a Paris
 "L'Epître à M. Labadie" - waka

 Dubi kuma 

 Waƙoƙin Kanada

 Manazarta 

Category: Marubuci