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"The Chronicles of l’Anse Saint-Roch" 1968
From: The Quebec Anthology
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In 1968, a complete edition of Perron’s stories appeared. Called simply Contes, it included the stories from the two earlier collections as well as four previously unpublished stories, one of which was "Les Chroniques de l’anse Saint-Roch," translated here by Wayne Grady as "The Chronicles of PAnse Saint-Roch." Ferron, writes Donald Smith in Voices of Deliverance, "attaches a great deal of importance to Quebec’s history"; Ferron wrote a series of what he called "historiettes," or historical tales, in which he writes "the true history without any window-dressing or prettifying." While the protagonist of this story, Reverend William Andicotte, is not a strictly historical figure, the story is "true" in every other important sense, and a fine example of Perron’s juxtaposition of fact and fiction.
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Jacques Ferron
Jacques Perron was born in Louiseville, near Trois-Rivières, on January 20, 1921, and attended first the Séminaire de Trois-Rivières and then Université Laval, from which he graduated with a degree in medicine in 1945. After a year with the Royal Army Medical Corps, he opened a practice in the Gaspé, in the village of Rivière-la-Madeleine, and then in Ville Jacques-Cartier, near Montreal, where he lived until his death on April 22, 1985. Doctor, writer, dramatist, journalist, iconoclast, and political maverick, Ferron was president of the Canadian Peace Congress in 1954, founder of the serio-satirical Rhinoceros Party in 1963, and the only person both Pierre Trudeau and Paul Rose would trust to negotiate the surrender of the FLQ in December 1970.
