Louis-Honoré Fréchette CMG (French pronunciation: [lwi ɔnɔʁe fʁeʃɛt]; November 16, 1839 – May 31, 1908) was a Canadian poet, politician, playwright and short story writer.

After that, he moved to Montreal where he began writing full-time, having inherited the wealth of his aunt when she died.

[4] In that same year Fréchette would meet Mark Twain in Montreal, whose writing he had much admired; indeed the two would remain friends, exchanging works and favorite books.

[5] In the following year Twain would toast Fréchette at an American welcoming banquet in Holyoke, joking about his regard for the translation of works that in his fictitious "translation his [Fréchette's] pathetic poems have naturally become humorous, his humorous poems have become sad.

In 1991, Louis Honoré Fréchette Public School, a French immersion, opened in Thornhill, Ontario.