Posts on Quebec Regionalism, Roman de la terre, Roman du terroir…

15 Wednesday Jan 2014

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Claude-Henri Grignon, Félix-Antoine Savard, Germaine Guèvremont, Le Survenant, Maria Chapdelaine, Patrice Lacombe, Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, Regionalism, Ringuet's Thirty Acres, Trente arpents

— Boy with Bread, by Ozias Leduc (8 October 1864 – 16 June 1955)

I believe this is the complete list of posts on regionalism, “roman de la terre,” “roman du terroir” I have written so far. They are at times repetitive because I do not know whether or not someone has read earlier posts. Maria Chapdelaine was written by Louis Hémon, a Frenchman, or an outsider. However, it is the one novel interested persons should read. Menaud, maître-draveur (a draveur is a river driver taking lumber logs to their destination) is a very poetical novel.

Louis Hémon, the author of Maria Chapdelaine, sees Quebec as eternal. Such hope is not expressed by Félix-Antoine Savard whose 1937 novel, Menaud, maître-draveur, is embedded in Hémon’s Maria Chapdelaine. Foreigners have come…

As you will notice, I did try to give more descriptive titles to older posts, but failed miserably. Fortunately, my cat said: enough! He’s in charge, so what could I do. Lists were my solution.

Frescoes/Fresques by Ozias Leduc

Young Student, by Ozias Leduc

15 January 2014

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The End of Regionalism in Quebec Fiction & Marc-Aurèle Fortin

15 Sunday Jul 2012

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Claude-Henri Grignon, Germaine Guèvremont, LIST OF POSTS, Menaud maître draveur, Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, Regionalism, roman de la terre, Séraphin: un homme et son péché, terroir, Trente arpents

Sainte-Rose Village by Marc-Aurèle Fortin, 1930

Marc-Aurèle Fortin (14 March 1888 – 2 March 1970)

Artwork: with permission from La Galerie Walter Klinkhoff

Le Devoir: Marc-Aurèle Fortin (article on current exhibition)

Gabrielle Roy’s Tin Flute (city novel)*

Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau: Happiness Unattainable (poetry)

REGIONALISM IN QUEBEC FICTION

Regionalism in Quebec Fiction: Ringuet’s Trente Arpents (2)*

Regionalism in Quebec Fiction: Ringuet’s Trente Arpents (1)*

Menaud, maître-draveur: a Metaphysical Land, Félix-Antoine Savard*

Germaine Guèvremont’s Le Survenant*

Claude-Henri Grignon: Notre culture sera paysanne, ou ne sera pas (article)

Séraphin, Un Homme et son péché, or Heart of Stone, Claude Henri Grignon*

Regionalism in Quebec Fiction: Maria Chapdelaine, Louis Hémon*

Regionalism in Quebec Fiction: The Honorable Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau

Regionalism in Quebec Fiction: Patrice Lacombe’s La Terre paternelle

The Canadien’s Terroir

The Regionalistic Novel In Quebec: Survival

New France: Once upon a time… (roots of regionalism) ←

* Fiction

List of Posts

This is an updated list of my posts on Quebec. I am now preparing a post on Trente Arpents (Thirty Acres), a novel published in 1938 by Ringuet. The literature that follows Trente Arpents is about life in cities or small towns. Trente Arpents reminds me of a typical Balzac novel: the rise and fall of… Euchariste Moisan inherits thirty acres, marries, raises a family, but there is a sudden dégringolade. Everything goes wrong…

Village in Quebec by Marc-Aurèle Fortin, 1926

A Rainy Road by Marc-Aurèle Fortin,
c. 1925-1928 (National Gallery of Canada)

A Rainy Road

Marc-Aurèle Fortin (biographical notes)

Three Conferences, Confederation and Now: Civil Unrest

From Coast to Coast: The Iron Horse, Part 2

From Coast to Coast: The Iron Horse, Part 1

From Coast to Coast: Louis Riel as Father of the Confederation

From Coast to Coast: the Fenian Raids

From Coast to Coast: the Oregon Country

Nouvelle-France’s Seigneurial System (listed twice)

La Capricieuse & Crémazie’s Old Soldier*

Parliament to the Rescue: the Hidden Solution

The Rebellion in Upper Canada: Wikipedia’s Gallery

The Act of Union: the Aftermath

The Act of Union 1840-41

Upper & Lower Canada

The Aftermath: Krieghoff’s Quintessential Quebec

Évangéline & the Literary Homeland (cont’d)*

Évangéline & the Literary Homeland*

La Corriveau: A Legend*

The Aftermath cont’d: Aubert de Gaspé’s Anciens Canadiens*

Nouvelle-France’s Seigneurial System

Jacques Cartier, the Mariner

Pierre du Gua: a mostly Forgotten Founder of Canada

Richelieu & Nouvelle-France ←

Une Éminence grise: Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal-Duc de Richelieu et de Fonsac

THE VOYAGEURS

In these Fairylike Boats…

The Singing Voyageurs

The Voyageur Mythified

The Voyageur from Sea to Sea

The Voyageur & his Canoe

The Voyageurs & their Employers

The Voyageurs: hommes engagés (hired men)

THE BATTLES

Nouvelle-France’s Last and Lost Battle: The Battle of the Plains of Abraham Battle of Fort William Henry & Cooper’s Last of the Mohicans

Louis-Joseph de Montcalm-Gozon, Marquis de Saint-Veran

Saint-Siméon, by Marc-Aurèle Fortin (Photo credit: Google images)

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Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, Biographical Notes

05 Tuesday Jun 2012

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Canada, Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Dominion of Canada, Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, Montreal, Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, Quebec, Quebec City, Wikipedia

English: Hon. P. J. O. Chauveau, Montreal, QC, 1863 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Biographical Notes

Related Post:

Regionalism in Quebec Fiction: The Honorable Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau

This information is available in Wikipedia and in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online, but should have been included at the beginning of my blog.

Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau (May 30, 1820 – April 4, 1890), born in Charlesbourg, near Quebec City, was

the first Premier of the Canadian province of Quebec following the establishment of the Dominion of Canada in 1867;
founder of Confederation;
a lawyer by profession, and practiced in Quebec City;
the co-founder of the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste of Quebec City in 1842, a nationalistic society that exists to this day.
He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada in 1844, and reelected in 1848, 1851, and 1854.
He was solicitor-general of Lower Canada, without a seat in cabinet, from 1851 to 1853;
From 1855 to 1867, he was superintendent of the bureau of Education.
In 1867, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec in Québec-Comté electoral district and headed a Conservative government as the first Premier of Quebec.
He was also the Minister of Education and Provincial Secretary.
Also beginning in 1867, he was simultaneously the federal Member of Parliament for the riding of Quebec County (such “double mandates” were abolished in 1874).
He was appointed Speaker of the Canadian Senate on February 21, 1873.
In 1878, he became professor of Roman law at Université Laval.
He was President of the Royal Society of Canada in 1883-1884.
He died April 4 in Quebec City in 1890. He had seven children, one of which, Alexandre Chauveau, became a provincial politician in his own right.

Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau is also the author of:

Voyage du Prince de Galles [the Prince of Wales] en Amérique;
L’Instruction publique au Canada (Public Education in Canada);[i]
F.-X. Garneau, sa vie et ses œuvres (a biography of historian François Xavier Garneau (This life and times of…);
L’Abbé Holmes et ses conférences de Notre-Dame (Father Holmes and his Notre-Dame Speeches).

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