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Showing posts with label Beauchemin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Beauchemin. Show all posts
12 November 2024

Last Words of a Raconteur

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Yellow-Wolf & Other Tales of the Saint Lawrence [ Divers ] Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé [trans Jane Brierley] Montreal: V é hicule, ...
24 June 2022

'La Fête nationale' par Léon Lorrain

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Léon Lorrain 1855 - 1892 RIP Verse for the day from Léon Lorrain's Les Fleurs poétiques, simples bluettes (Montreal: Beauchemin, 1890)....
19 October 2020

Armand Durand; or, A Summer Project

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Armand Durand; ou, La promesse accomplie     [Armand Durand; or, A Promise Fulfilled] Madame Leprohon [Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon;     t...
24 June 2017

Pour la fête de St-Jean-Baptiste, 1858

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Montreal's Crystal Palace as it was in preparation of the 1874 fête St-Jean-Baptiste,  sixteen years after this verse was composed b...
25 July 2016

Bad News for Modern Man

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The Cashier [Alexandre Chenevert] Gabrielle Roy [trans. Harry Binsse] Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1955 I wonder how much slee...
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24 November 2014

The Dreams That Things Are Made Of

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Farewell My Dreams [La fin des songes] Robert Élie [trans. Irene Coffin] Toronto: Ryerson, 1954  Farewell My Dreams isn't a titl...
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23 August 2014

The Angels of Mons at 100

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The Angels of Mons,  R. Crowhurst, c. 1920 This day marks the centenary of perhaps the most extraordinary event in the Great War. The ...
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01 July 2014

Patriotic Verse from the Garden of a Girl's Dreams

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For this day, the 147th anniversary of the birth of the Dominion of Canada, patriotic verse by the ever-charming Ethel Ursula Foran . A ...
02 July 2013

Of Old Books and (possibly) Mummy Paper

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Delightfully charming, unconventionally sentimental schoolgirl verse from Ethel Ursula Foran , whose "New Year's Day" h...
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01 January 2012

Immature Verse for a New Year

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Twenty-two lines of celebration from Poems (Beauchemin, 1922), the first volume by young Ethel Ursula Foran (1900-1988). The daughter o...
24 June 2011

Burpee's Bad 'St. John the Baptist': Truly Criminal

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François-Réal Angers was a truly remarkable man. A lawyer, a gentleman of letters and a strong, articulate voice against slavery in...