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Pélagie: The Return to a Homeland

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Also known as: “Pélagie-la-charrette”

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French Canadian literature

In Canadian literature: The Quiet Revolution of French Canadian minorities
…Prix Goncourt for Pélagie-la-charrette (1979; Pélagie: The Return to a Homeland), an epic novel about the fate of Acadians after the deportation of 1755, she created an awareness of Acadia and its history. Her novel Les Confessions de Jeanne de Valois (1992; “The Confessions of Jeanne de Valois”) reviews the…
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