The Récit and Chronique of French Canada (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Ward, Charles Frederick) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The Récit and Chronique of French Canada We are happy to present to readers the "Récit and Chronique of French Canada" by Dr. Charles Frederick Ward, professor at the University of Iowa. These pages which we have perused with lively interest contain very clear analyses, judicious observations, a sort of general picture of one of the most living chapters in the history of French Canadian literature. We thank Mr. Ward for having had the generous thought of making known to the English speaking public of Canada and the United States our French Canadian literature. We know that a too high barrier separates the intellectual life of the two races which dominate Canada. Doubtless the two literature´s English and French ought to develop according to the genius peculiar to each one of the races the thought and life of which they express, but it would be desirable that cultivated minds in both peoples of this country should know better the numerous works written both in English and in French which are published each year and which represent the higher and deeper of the two principal elements of our population. At the time when by so many efforts it is being sought for to bring these two elements together, to make known to each other and to make penetrate each other these two mentalities, the work of Mr. Ward will contribute in great measure to assure the success of these praiseworthy attempts. Mr. Ward could not have chosen a better subject to make English speaking readers acquainted with the soul of French Canada. The chroniques, the contes, the légendes, are the habitual and intimate expression of the thought of a people. History has undoubtedly, in a sense, more importance: it relates the events which constitute the essential texture of national life. But, beneath la grande history, there is la petite. And this latter is composed precisely of all those little facts, of all those popular sentiments, of all those récits, of all those légendes, in which is marvellously reflected a life more intimate, occasionally more profound, which is the very life of the people, which is the free expression of the soul of the race. La grande histoire is made on the summits, in the light of the peaks, to which at certain hours the national life ascends; la petite, is made at the bottom of the valleys, where the picturesque villages are hidden, by the intimate hearths of families, in the discrete light in which the scenes of popular life are unrolled and nowhere does one find more exactly than in the homes of he people the realization of the thoughts and aspirations of a race. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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