Louis Hémon
Maria Chapdelaine
Paris, [Montréal], Librairie Delagrave, n.d. [1916].
The plot of Maria Chapdelaine, the celebrated masterpiece of the Québécois "roman de la terre," was written by the Frenchman Louis Hémon. Hémon had sailed for Canada in 1911 and spent the winter in Montreal before walking to Lac Saint-Jean, settling in Péribonka, one of the smallest villages in the province of Quebec. There, a…
