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The French Jesuit Étienne de Carheil is known especially for his missions among Canada's indigenous peoples. The work studied here, however, predates his departure for the missions: it involves a Latin poem (Metamorphosis) that celebrates the birth of the eldest son of Louis xiv on November 1st, 1661 and was composed when Carheil, then twenty-eight, was a professor of rhetoric at the Jesuit College in Tours. The poem was approved by his superiors and judged worthy of publication in Paris; de Carheil was still talking about it in a letter to his father sent twelve years later from the Saint Joseph mission in Goyogouën. An analysis of this long allegorical poem (260 hexameters devoted to the metamorphosis of the French fleur-de-lis, red with the blood of wars, but changed to white again with the princely birth) reveals the literary and cultural baggage of the young de Carheil a few years before leaving for Canada.
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Mémoire numérisé par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.
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Mémoire numérisé par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.
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Mémoire numérisé par la Division de la gestion de documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal.