Career
He was a student at the Petit Séminaire de Québec and followed this by a study of medicine, receiving his medical diploma in 1844. Taché practised medicine in Rimouski, and, at the age of 27, he was unopposed for a seat in the Legislative Assembly. His activity in politics led him into the newspaper business as a writer renowned for his caustic political wit.
He enjoyed great popularity in this area as a writer and editor until 1859 when he left Le Courrier du Canada to pursue other writing full-time.