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The city of Québec has more than one hundred historical monuments within its limits the majority of which are in Old Québec or near the parliament buildings. This historical and sociological analysis exposes the major commemorative themes. The historical characteristics of the city as military stronghold, political capital and religious centre have shaped the relationship of its citizens with their past. Two major waves of commemoration have been identified, each with its distinctive political and esthetic characteristics : the first occurred between 1890 and 1939 and the second from 1980 to the present. In fact, the periods during which these commemorative busts and monuments were created reflect their own historical features such as the converging or diverging interests of the social actors involved. Commemorative dualism is one of the particularly significant general characteristics revealed by this analysis.
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From the perspective of “novelistic criticism”, this article intends to demonstrate the existence of an absent text in Louis Hémon’s novel, Maria Chapdelaine. Highlighted with transmedia storytelling (the films of Gilles Carle, Marc Allégret and Julien Duvivier) and literary paraphrases, this text concerns the death of François Paradis. We will arrive to the inevitable conclusion that the beautiful adventurer did not “get away” (“écarté”), but that he was assassinated by a character for whom this disappearance could only be profitable.