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"Foreign Souls" 1934

From: The Quebec Anthology

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From 1930 until her death in 1964, Marie le Franc also contributed stories and essays to many international journals, including Mercure de France, Liaison, and Garnets victoriens. Most of her stories were collected in a single volume, Visages de Montréal (Faces of Montreal), in 1934, and it is from this collection that "Âmes etrangeres," translated by Matt Cohen as "Foreign Souls," has been taken.

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Marie le Franc

Born in Sarzeau, Brittany, in 1879, Marie le Franc studied to become a teacher in Vannes, France, and taught in le Morbihan before moving to Montreal in 1906. She taught French language and literature, first at Westmount College and then at McGill University, and over the course of her eighty-five years published eleven books. The first, a book of poetry, Les Voix du coeur et de l'âme (Voices of Heart and Soul), appeared in Montreal in 1920; the second, poems closely related to the first, called Les Voix de misère et d'allégresse (Voices of Misery and Joy), was published in Paris in 1923. She was the author of six novels, the first of which, Grand Louis l'innocent (1927), was awarded the Prix Fémina, making her the first writer living in Canada ever to receive this prestigious French award. This was followed by Le Poste sur la dune in 1928. She returned to France in 1929, and her next three novels were all published in 1930: Grand Louis le revenant, Pêcheurs de Gaspésie, and Hélier, fils des bois. Her last novel, La Rivière solitaire, appeared in 1957.