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Maria Chapdelaine
novel by Hémon
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- In Louis Hémon
…was a French author of Maria Chapdelaine, the best-known novel of French Canadian pioneer life.
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French Canadian literature
- In Canadian literature: The Montreal School, 1895–1935
…French author Louis Hémon’s novel Maria Chapdelaine (1914; Eng. trans. Maria Chapdelaine), set in the rural Lac Saint-Jean region of Quebec, though grudgingly accepted by the Québécois at first, quickly became an important classic very much in tune with the predominant agriculturalist ideology. However, Quebec authors such as Rodolphe Girard…
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