Canadian French: The Language and Literature of the Past Decade, 1890-1900, with a Retrospect of the Causes that Have Produced Them

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Junge & Sohn, 1902 - 66 pages
 

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Page 26 - ... il n'ya réellement pas de dialectes; il n'ya que des traits linguistiques qui entrent respectivement dans des combinaisons diverses, de telle sorte que le parler d'un endroit contiendra un certain nombre de traits qui lui seront communs, par exemple, avec le parler de chacun des quatre endroits les plus voisins, et un certain nombre de traits qui différeront du parler de chacun d'eux.
Page 11 - Montreal, 7 vols., large 8vo, issued between 1871 and 1890. Garneau, Ferland, Sulte, Turcotte, Tass6, David, and Tanguay, merely the magnum opus, so to speak, has been cited; but they were nearly all prolific writers, some of them, like Bibaud and Sulte, indefatigable workers, and their influence in public and private life, by pen and by word, on the French language of Canada and the intellectual development of the French Canadians would be hard to overestimate. We now come to writings in a somewhat...
Page 3 - L'Abbe Laverdiere, professor of history and for some time librarian of Laval University, the whole production in every way reflecting credit upon Canadian scholarship. Narrations similar to Champlain's, by his contemporaries, Marc Lescarbot and Gabriel Sagard, have become classic landmarks in Canadian history. That of Lescarbot14 deals with the Nova Scotia colony, and forms one of the most entertaining accounts of those days. The popular character of the work, together with the volume of verse, Les...
Page 2 - ... population numbered about 65,000, nearly all French. From that time, even, compared with the advance in the Republic over the border, the increase in all the provinces, owing to internal dissensions, and to the difficulty of governing elements so mixed, was slow, but steady; and just after the Union, about 1841, the total population of Canada was over a million and a half, with the French-Canadian element slightly preponderating. From that time on, the AngloSaxons have forged to the front in...
Page 26 - il n'ya reellement pas de dialectes; il n'ya que des traits linguistiques qui entrent respectivement dans des combinaisons diverses"144).
Page 13 - Quebec, 1863, pp. 4n, 8vo; published under the auspices of the Foyer canadien; a second and third edition followed. Translated into English by Georgiana M. Pennee: The Canadians of Old Quebec, 1864; and again in 1890, by Charles GD Roberts. s
Page 2 - But during the entire period of the French domination in Canada (16081760), there cannot be said to have existed, properly speaking, Canadian literature. Indeed, it was only after the Conquest (1760) that there was a printing press in Canada, and up to that time the population numbered about 65,000, nearly all French. From that time, even, compared with the advance in the Republic over the border, the increase in all the provinces, owing to internal dissensions, and to the difficulty of governing...
Page 3 - ... Nouvelle-France, 1613 (Paris: Tross, 1866) and in the renowned magnum opus of Hakluyt: The Principal Navigations, Voyages, etc., London, 1600, 3 vols.; reprinted by the Hakluyt Society in 1850. republished in Quebec, in 1843, by the Qu6bec-literary and Historical Society, in the Voyages de decouvertes au Canada entre les annees 1534 et 1542. Despite the lack of literary merit of the recital, the story of the discovery of the St. Lawrence on the festival day of St. Lawrence, the naming of the...
Page 3 - Pontgrav6, the sailing up the St. Lawrence, founding of Quebec, and discovery of Lake Champlain, together with experiences with the Indians, form one of the best sources of American history extant. The matter is available in the excellent six-volume quarto edition published in Quebec, in 1870, and edited with notes by...
Page 29 - ... and their works, comprising practically all that have made a reputation, and is executed thoroughly and in a conscientious spirit, making the book most useful. Something similar and more recent is Charles ab der Halden's Etudes de litterature canadienne franqais, and the Nouvelles etudes.'1* William H.

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