Among authors who didn’t live to witness their own success, Louis Hemon is a particularly unfortunate case — his novel “Maria Chapdelaine” was published in 1913, the same year as his train-struck ...

It was by complete chance that filmmaker Sébastien Pilote reread Maria Chapdelaine, the classic novel of rural Quebec. He was filming in the Lac Saint-Jean area and staying in a borrowed cottage where ...

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"Ite, missa est. The door opened, and the men of the congregation began to come out of the church at Péribonka." And so begins Maria Chapdelaine: A Tale of French Canada. Written by Louis Hémon in ...