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Supported by the works of Pierre Nora, Jacques Le Goff, Michel de Certeau, Paul Ricoeur and Michel Foucault, this article evaluates the possible conditions for a literary history of eighteenth-century Canadians. How, in our era, do we “make history”, how do we “invent a literature” based on a heterogeneous corpus of handwritten and printed archival materials, whose authors were not always aware they were “creating” or passing on to posterity ? What memory can compensate today for the literary establishment's neglect of this production ? From Lahontan to Bailly de Messein, by way of Charlevoix, Lafitau, Bégon, and including texts dealing with the Conquest, do the richness and variety of this archive really justify our project to exhume them ?
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Keywords: Alain Deneault
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