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This article revisits the phenomenon of « taking possession », one of the mechanisms through which the French attempted to extend sovereignty overseas during the 16th -18th centuries, by exploring it through the joint lenses of religion, gender, and Imperium Studies. It examines this symbolic hold on lands intended to constitute the kingdom of France, first by observing the dilatatio regnum regi in France and in Europe, and then by comparing these to French expansion in America. The article formulates hypotheses for how one might rethink attempts to deploy French royal authority over peoples of the Old and New Worlds.
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At the turn of the 20th century, Saint-Jean-de-Dieu Hospital was the largest asylum in Canada and the therapeutic skills of its operators and psychiatrists were internationally renowned. Consultation of over 8000 medical files from this psychiatric institution uncovered valuable correspondence between the families of patients (petitioners) and medical superintendents on the subject of trial leave. These primary sources describe the comings and goings of patients between the hospital and the family home. They also reveal fears for a future when the patient might return home permanently. This study of the cultural history of sensibilities examines, from the perspective of “risk”, the private and intimate dimensions of the contemplation of potential misfortune caused by the return of a family member who was deemed mentally retarded, incurably insane, or senile demented. In particular, the article focuses on the discourse surrounding “events that had yet to occur” that prompted petitioners to reject the unconditional release of a family member from the psychiatric hospital.
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The “denarrativization” of Céline's writing in the German trilogy allows him to write a History of chaos, to achieve an infra-writing of History steeped in the commonplace, to give voice to the “non-tellable.” This study explores how a literary writing of history (and the concomitant reading thereof) makes it possible to at once recount History in another way, to tell a story different from the official historiography, and finally to recount something other than history.
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The anti-Semitic writings of Catholic French-Canadian intellectuals have received a lot of attention. From Lionel Groulx to Le Devoir, not to mention the Jeune-Canada movement, the 1930s have much to offer those interested in the issue of anti-Semitism in Catholic Quebec. A large number of relevant studies have focused on the period. However, although Catholicism has often been identified as a source of anti-Semitism, the role of the Catholic Church as an institution has yet to be examined. This article explores the views of the Catholic Church on anti-Semitism and its expressions, especially in relation to Adrien Arcand's Christian National Socialist Party. Did the Church encourage anti-Semitism among its followers, did it condemn anti-Semitism, or did it largely ignore the issue ? Did the bishops themselves harbour prejudice against Jews, or even fear them ? The recently opened archives of the Archdioceses of Quebec and Montreal show that, on the one hand, the Church generally failed to reach out to the Jewish community or encourage Catholics to be more open and understanding. On the other hand, the Church was suspicious of Adrien Arcand's party and had little appetite for his virulently anti-Jewish discourse. The article illustrates these findings by revisiting the 1930 debate on Jewish schools, the the relationship between the Quebec Church and the Christian National Socialist Party, as well as the anti-Semitic rhetoric of some priests in the Diocese of Quebec.
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As part of a larger research project on the history of popular song, which analyzes the musical preferences of the female readers of the Bulletin des agriculteurs in the 1940s, this article focuses on those elements that allow for an understanding of the modalities by which these women's musical tastes reflected the emergence of a cultural modernity in Quebec during that decade. Two basic premises orient my perspective on the subject. The first presupposes the existence of a “popular” cultural modernity based on form, equipment, and technology. The second explores both the way in which intimate themes and the importance given to expressions of love reflected a shift in values, as well as the formal and discursive markers that transmitted these values in popular song.
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The anti-Semitic writings of Catholic French-Canadian intellectuals have received a lot of attention. From Lionel Groulx to Le Devoir, not to mention the Jeune-Canada movement, the 1930s have much to offer those interested in the issue of anti-Semitism in Catholic Quebec. A large number of relevant studies have focused on the period. However, although Catholicism has often been identified as a source of anti-Semitism, the role of the Catholic Church as an institution has yet to be examined. This article explores the views of the Catholic Church on anti-Semitism and its expressions, especially in relation to Adrien Arcand's Christian National Socialist Party. Did the Church encourage anti-Semitism among its followers, did it condemn anti-Semitism, or did it largely ignore the issue ? Did the bishops themselves harbour prejudice against Jews, or even fear them ? The recently opened archives of the Archdioceses of Quebec and Montreal show that, on the one hand, the Church generally failed to reach out to the Jewish community or encourage Catholics to be more open and understanding. On the other hand, the Church was suspicious of Adrien Arcand's party and had little appetite for his virulently anti-Jewish discourse. The article illustrates these findings by revisiting the 1930 debate on Jewish schools, the the relationship between the Quebec Church and the Christian National Socialist Party, as well as the anti-Semitic rhetoric of some priests in the Diocese of Quebec.
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AbstractHistorical maps are not simply scientific reflections of geography. It is better to understand them as « constructions » that show us how past societies understood their world. They played a significant role in the construction of a « New World of the mind » by the French ministers, Louis and Jérôme de Pontchartrain, who governed the destiny of Canada between 1690 and 1715. If the maps of J.-B.-L. Franquelin reveal both the danger and the possibilities of a continental, imperialist policy in North America, the maps of J.-B. de Couagne show us Jérôme's less grandiose choice. Consequently, we are obliged to reject the thesis of an ambitious imperial policy in the last years of the reign of Louis XIV.