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Abbé Henri-Raymond Casgrain
French-Canadian author
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contribution to Quebec Movement
- In Canadian literature: The literary movement of 1860
Their spokesman, Henri-Raymond Casgrain, promoted a messianic view of the spiritual mission of French Canadians in North America, now that postrevolutionary France had fallen into what he perceived to be godlessness and materialism. Only a few French Romantic writers were admired and imitated. Philippe Aubert de Gaspé’s…
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