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Quebec Movement

Canadian literary movement

Also known as: Literary Movement of Quebec, Mouvement Littéraire de Québec, Movement of 1860, Patriotic School of Quebec

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In Canadian literature: The literary movement of 1860
…Mouvement Littéraire de Québec (Literary Movement of Quebec). Often congregating at the bookstore of poet Octave Crémazie, its dozen members shared patriotic, conservative, and strongly Roman Catholic convictions about the survival of French Canada. Their spokesman, Henri-Raymond Casgrain, promoted a messianic view of the spiritual mission of French Canadians…
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Crémazie

In Octave Crémazie
…School of Quebec (or the Literary Movement of Quebec). In 1861 Crémazie and his friends began issuing a monthly magazine of literature and history, Les Soirées Canadiennes, to preserve the folklore of French Canada. Crémazie also published poems in the Journal de Québec from about 1854.
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