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It was the rise of Quebec patriotism and the 1837 Lower Canada Rebellion, in addition to a modern system of primary school education, which led to the rise of French-Canadian fiction. L'influence d'un livre by Philippe-Ignace-Francois Aubert de Gaspé is widely regarded as the first French-Canadian novel. The genres which first became popular were the rural novel and the historical novel. French authors were influential, especially authors like Balzac.
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Durham's words have been credited with inspiring a young French Canadian lawyer, François-Xavier Garneau, with the desire to demonstrate to his compatriots and the world that French Canadians had a glorious history. His Histoire du Canada (1845-1848) records the deeds of his people’s ancestors. He gathered information from journals kept by 16th- and 17th-century French explorers Jacques Cartier and Samuel de Champlain, as well as from chronicles by 17th-century French lawyer and writer Marc Lescarbot, and by 18th-century French historian and Jesuit missionary Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix. Other sources used by Garneau were Les relations des Jésuites, annual reports from 1632 to 1673 of Jesuit missionaries about their lives among indigenous peoples, and letters and mystical writings of Marie de l'Incarnation, a Roman Catholic nun of the Ursuline order. She arrived in New France in 1639 and established a convent in Québec City for the education of both French and indigenous girls.
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It is a singular tribute to British administration that the French Canadian people, given an invitation to join the neighboring republic, unanimously refused. They found by experience that they possessed greater liberty where they were and more chance of developing in a smaller nation than as a small element in a much larger nation. There has been a certain amount of friction and memories of the conquest die hard. However, the way seems clear for cooperation of the two races in the development of a great commonwealth, the progress of which may be promoted better ... than by one race of homogeneous culture (1).
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