La Plume et le Compas: notes sur la franc-maçonnerie dans les lettres québécoises
The Quill and the Square: Notes on Freemasonry in Quebec Letters

Author(s): Bernard Andrès
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, French Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: French-Canadian literature; Quebec; freemasonry; enlightenment
Summary/Abstract: What can be said about the links between the first Quebec writers of the 18th-19th centuries and the secret or discreet societies of freemasonry, devoted to philosophical reflection or philanthropic action? As early as the end of the 18th century,the Catholic Church in Lower Canada perceived a danger to good Canadian souls in the Enlightenment and rationalism. We examine here how the Philosophical Enlightenment and the Masonic Enlightenment nourished the first generations of French-Canadian people of letters in the years 1760-1780, then in Lower Canada (1791-1841) and up to Confederation.

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