For My Country/'Pour la Patrie': An 1895 Religious and Separatist Vision of Quebec set in the Mid-Twentieth Century

by Jules-Paul Tardivel

Book Overview

In his frankly separatist and religious novel Pour la patrie, Jules-Paul Tardivel expressed in an extreme way what the majority of nineteenth-century Quebeckers would have expressed more moderately. Originally published in 1895, the novel reiterates two central themes of Tardivel's writing: the Catholicism of French Canada and its unique social and political implications, and the Quebec-centred need of French Canada for its own separate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802062679
• ISBN13: 9780802062673
• Release Date: December 1975
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"