Louis Hémon

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Louis Hémon


Born
in Brest, France
October 12, 1880

Died
July 08, 1913


Average rating: 3.22 · 2,731 ratings · 163 reviews · 86 distinct worksSimilar authors
Maria Chapdelaine

3.20 avg rating — 2,663 ratings — published 1913 — 117 editions
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Lizzie Blakeston

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Monsieur Ripois et la Némésis

3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1986 — 26 editions
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Colin-Maillard

4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1924 — 17 editions
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Écrits sur le Québec

liked it 3.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1993 — 5 editions
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Battling Malone pugiliste 1926

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1984 — 21 editions
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L'enquête: Suivi de: La Riv...

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My Fair Lady

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Écrits sur le Québec

liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2014
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La Belle que voilà

4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1923 — 7 editions
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“autour de nous des étrangers sont venus, qu'il nous plaît d'appeler des barbares ; ils ont pris presque tout le pouvoir ; ils ont acquis presque tout l'argent ; mais au pays de Québec rien n'a changé. Rien ne changera, parce que nous sommes un témoignage. De nous-mêmes et de nos destinées, nous n'avons compris clairement que ce devoir-là : persister... nous maintenir... et nous nous sommes maintenus, peut-être afin que dans plusieurs siècles encore le”
Louis Hémon, Maria Chapdelaine : récit du Canada français

“Peut-être les Chapdelaine pensaient-ils à cela et chacun à sa manière ; le père avec l'optimisme invincible d'un homme qui se sait fort et se croit sage ; la mère avec un regret résigné ; et les autres, les jeunes, d'une façon plus vague et sans amertume (...)

Maria Chapdelaine, Louis Hémon, éd. Gallimard, coll. littérature québéquoise, p. 40”
Louis Hémon (1880 - 1913), Maria Chapdelaine

“Ten years as a day student in a dark lycée – dreary studies. All fighting spirit vanished under the slow oppression of Greek composition.”
Louis Hémon (1880 - 1913)

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