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"The Mass of Florent Letourneau" 1930

From: The Quebec Anthology

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The story included here, "La messe de Florent Létourneau," translated by Sheila Fischman, is a fine example of Dantin’s classical mind. It first appeared in the periodical L’Avenir du Nord on December 14, 1926, and was included in La Vie en reve. "Beauty," he wrote in one of his critical essays, "often strikes you in guises that go against the rules."

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Louis Dantin

Eugène Sears (who wrote under the pseudonyme Louis Dantin) was born in the village of Beauharnois in 1865. He attended the Collège de Montréal and later the Séminaire de Montréal, and studied to become a priest at the Congrégation des Pères du Très-Saint-Sacrement in 1883. In 1884, he began work on a Ph.D. in philosophy in Rome, and took his vows in Brussels in 1887. From there he moved to Paris, where he was ordained in 1888, but he soon suffered a crisis of faith and returned to Montreal in 1894.