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"The Three Devils, or, All’s Well That Ends Well" 1867
From: The Quebec Anthology
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"Les trois diables," translated by Wayne Grady as "The Three Devils," first appeared in Contes populaires and was one of Stevens’s more successful stories. It is typical of his use of the mannerisms of the folktale to shed light on contemporary morals—on the one hand, it is a caution against alcoholism (or at least against marrying an alcoholic wife); on the other, it is a romping celebration of the triumph of the meek over the machinations of the devil.
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Paul Stevens
Paul-Jules-Joseph Stevens was born in Brussels, Belgium, in 1830, and emigrated to Canada in 1854 to become a school teacher in Berthier-en-Haut, now called Berthierville. He married Marie Valier in 1855 and the next year began publishing in such popular journals of the day as Le Pays, La Patrie, and L'Avenir. Upon moving to Montreal in 1858, he gave private lessons in French and drawing, and began giving lectures at the Cabinet de lecture paroissial; his lectures were published in the journal L'Echo du cabinet de lecture
