The 1914 novel Maria Chapdelaine, a backwoods romance written by the French immigrant Louis Hémon and based on his experiences as a labourer in the Lac Saint-Jean area, became an international ...

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 ...

When you think of classic Canadian novels, Anne of Green Gables is sure to come to mind first as its many adaptations from stage to screen have kept Lucy Maud Montgomery's story of the titular ...

French novel is set in the Quebec region that today bears its name You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. Reviews and recommendations are unbiased ...

"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 ...