Philippe Aubert de Gaspé, père

David Parris (Trinity College Dublin)

Ed. by Emir Delic, Université Sainte-Anne
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.1.4: Canadian Writing and Culture: Francophone .
Vol. editors: Emir Delic (Université Sainte-Anne), Eftihia Mihelakis (Brandon University), Glen Nichols (Mount Allison University), Wendy Roy (University of Saskatchewan), Denis Salter (McGill University), Karis Shearer (University of British Columbia)

Dates

Born 30 Oct 1786
Died 29 Jan 1871

Places

Born in Canada
Active in Canada

Cultural Identities

French Canadian

Activities

Primary

Novelist

Other

Lawyer/ Barrister/ Solicitor

Resources

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(Almost) first-hand testimony can cover immense periods, as in the case of Philippe Aubert de Gaspé, born in 1786, just 23 years after the British Conquest of New France. While France itself became a revolutionary state, French Canada, though shaken by British rule, came to terms with no longer having a “mother country” to which it could return. “Qui n’a pas connu l’ancien régime n’a pas connu la douceur de vivre” [“Who has not known the old regime has never known the sweetness of living”], said Talleyrand to Guizot. The

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(peasants) thought the story of the execution of Louis XVI was British propaganda, and Aubert de Gaspé recalls being halfway “negationist”: “Mais non, la masse de la nation française n’était pas solidaire de ces infamies” (

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Citation: Parris, David. "Philippe Aubert de Gaspé, père". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 30 May 2016 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13526, accessed 22 November 2024.]