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ABSTRACTThis study examines how the staging of a meditation on the ruins of the ancient empires leads Volney to contrast the seemingly endless cycle of revolutions to the French Revolution. Decentration has virtues — as much methodological as philosophical and political — that are multiple, and that allow to put religions on trial. If the French Revolution is paradigmatic, it is because it announces this movement by which the peoples will take their destiny in their own hands. But then, why should a catechism still be needed?
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SUMMARYFor a century and a half, several historians and genealogists have examined immigration to Canada under the French regime. However, for the most part, they dealt with only a fraction of the total immigration, that which relates to individuals who settled in the country, thus constituting the roots of what was to become the Canadian population. In this article, we review the literature on the subject, while introducing a couple of new concepts: founding immigration and observed immigration. Lastly, we present new estimations of observed immigration and net migration, for the 1666-1760 period. We show that total immigration, that is crude immigration, was of at least some 30,000 Frenchmen, between 1608 and 1760. This figure greatly exceeds the estimation sanctioned by the historiography, which sets at 10,000 the number of immigrants for that period.
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The manuscript Paris, BNF, fr. 25545 is atypical in many ways. Not only does it present a striking poetic diversity (fabliau, hagiography, romance, didacticpoem, etc.), it also offers a surprising combination of literary and commerce-oriented texts. This has led critics, such as Olivier Collet and Jean Rychner, to argue that this book was composed for a bourgeois patron, who may have been amerchant himself. Such a hypothesis has important implications, and places this early 14th century manuscript among the first — if not the first — bourgeois manuscript. Using a method based on both poetics and philology, this article will seek to nuance this hypothesis. Based on content analysis and the manuscript tradition of these commerce-oriented writings, it will be possible to reveal certain bridges that may have linked commerce and literature in the reading habits of a larger segment of contemporary audiences. These bridges will reveal a series of recurring themes and preoccupations that evince a strong poetic unity within the manuscript. It will then appear that this book, which dwells on moral issues arising out of the social and cultural experience of the city, likely has more to do with “esprit du bourg” than “esprit bourgeois.”
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During the summer of 1967, the writer undertook a detailed survey of colonization lots in the « Pré-Nord » counties of Abitibi-East, Abitibi-West, Rouyn-Noranda and Temiskaming, located in the northwest sector of southern Québec. Only 6,500 of the 20,000 lots granted to colonists in this region are now occupied, giving rise to a piecemeal, discontinuous agricultural ecumene. No more than 2,000 of these lots are being properly farmed at the moment. Over the last few years alone about 5,000 lots have been abandoned. Temiskaming is perhaps the most suitable district for farming, and Rouyn-Noranda the least, but conditions vary greatly from parish to parish within all of these counties. Only 5 per cent of the farms located along the pioneer fringe of the region can be considered as viable units. A complete re-planning of the Abitibi region would now seem a priority.
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