Quebec Movement

Canadian literary movement

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

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The Quebec Movement, also known as the Literary Movement of Quebec, was French Canada's first literary grouping. Emerging around 1860 in Quebec City, this movement comprised about a dozen members who shared patriotic, conservative, and strongly Roman Catholic beliefs focused on the survival of French Canada. Their spokesman, Henri-Raymond Casgrain, promoted a view of French Canadians having a spiritual mission in North America, especially as France was perceived to be losing its religious and moral compass. The movement admired and imitated a few French Romantic writers, with works like Philippe Aubert de Gaspé's Les Anciens Canadiens and Gérin-Lajoie's Jean Rivard illustrating the era's nostalgic and didactic preoccupations.1

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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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…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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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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…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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