Charles R. (Charles Roger) Daoust

Charles R. Daoust, also listed as Charles Roger Daoust, was a French-language author born in 1865 and died in 1924. He is best known today for Cent-vingt jours de service actif, a historical narrative first published in 1886 about the campaign of the 65th Battalion in the North-West during the 1885 rebellion.

Library and research records connect him not only with that military memoir but also with Franco-American journalism. Scholarly catalog entries describe him as an important enough figure in New England French-language press history to be the subject of later studies on Franco-American politics and journalism.

Although detailed biographical information is not easy to confirm from readily available sources, his surviving work shows a writer interested in public life, memory, and the French-speaking communities of Canada and New England. For modern readers, Daoust stands out as a witness to his era whose writing carries both documentary value and personal immediacy.