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Rachel Nadon

Approches méthodologiques et théoriques en histoire intellectuelle : introduction

Valérie Lapointe Gagnon

Entrepreneuriat identitaire et régionalisme au Canada français : l’oeuvre du prêtre-historien saguenayen Victor Tremblay (1934-1959)

Maxime Fleury
Historiography and sociography have thoroughly studied the figure of the French-Canadian intellectual and their means of expression. However, there are figures from the past who cannot be entirely classified as intellectuals, yet whose work shaped their communities. This is the case of the priest-historian Victor Tremblay (1892-1979), founder of the Société historique du Saguenay (1934), co-organizer of the Saguenay centennial celebrations and creator of the Saguenay flag (1938), author of a monograph on the history of the Saguenay region (1938), and founder of the historical journal Saguenayensia (1959). By studying the major projects of his career, we aim to highlight the concept of the identity entrepreneur to account for a category of thinkers who have left a lasting institutional and symbolic legacy in the cultural landscape of certain regions of Quebec.

L’Acadie vue par les intellectuels dans la presse québécoise (1930-1960)

Stéphanie Bourque
The question of the relationship between Quebec and Acadia occasionally contains a certain ambiguity not found with the same intensity among other minority groups originating from the “French-Canadian” migration. We examined the representations of Acadia circulating in Quebec within the various ideological currents that shaped the French Canadian intellectual sphere from the 1930s to the 1960s. In doing so, we made sure not to limit ourselves to the French Canadian nationalist current by studying a wide range of publications. The various reflections on the relationship between Acadia and French Canada help shed light on the different ways FrenchCanadian intellectuals conceived of it during the period leading up to the Quiet Revolution.

Marguerite-A. Primeau et son inscription dans le monde des idées de l’Ouest canadien

Valérie Lapointe Gagnon
This article examines the obstacles that hinder the recognition of women’s presence in the history of ideas within Canadian Francophonie. Indeed, while there exists a rich intellectual history in Quebec and an equally rich history of women in the francophone province, the same cannot be said for the Canadian Francophonie, both in terms of intellectual history and women’s history. Using the case of writer Marguerite-A. Primeau as an example, I aim to show how literature can serve as a valuable material for understanding a world of ideas repressed by a political culture that sought the assimilation of francophones.

Note de recherche : prolégomènes à une analyse contextualiste de la pensée fédéraliste de Gérard Bergeron

David Olivier
This research paper offers a contextualist analysis of Gérard Bergeron’s federalist thought, drawing on Quentin Skinner’s theory of speech acts and methodology. It argues that Bergeron’s writings should be understood as situated discursive interventions aimed at transforming the Canadian constitutional debate. The study highlights the performative, strategic, and contextual dimensions of his thought, embedded within the political crises of Quebec and Canada (1970–1978). Bergeron emerges as a public intellectual seeking to reconfigure dominant ideological conventions and to open up alternative institutional pathways between centralizing federalism and sovereignty. This approach invites an extension of contextualist analysis toward a critical mapping of the discursive uses of federalism in the Canadian and Quebec public spheres. It paves the way for an investigation into the strategies of legitimation and delegitimisation that have structured the constitutional debate, the performative effects of political slogans, and the successive reconfigurations of the languages of power.

« La justice au Parnasse » : libelle, littérature et jeunes intellectuels de la Crise

Karim Chahine
This article examines a libel lawsuit filed in 1935 by members of the university newspaper L’Hebdo-Laval against the director and editor-in-chief of the magazine Vivre. The trial became a major event in Quebec City: in addition to receiving extensive coverage in the city’s newspapers, it attracted large audiences. Drawing primarily on newspaper reports and the archives of those involved, this study uses the case as a window into the intellectual and literary milieu of the period. Because criticism was excluded from the legal definition of defamatory libel, both parties sought to define the concept and determine whether the article in question fell within its scope. The trial thus provides an opportunity to identify the limits of polemical and pamphleteering discourse through the normative lens of the law.

Quoi comprendre de la Beauce ? La résistance beauceronne selon Madeleine Ferron et Robert Cliche

Théodore Paquet
The Beauce region has built for itself a solid reputation of conservatism in the media and Quebec’s social imagination. The historiographic work of Madeleine Ferron (1922-2010) and Robert Cliche (1921-1978), a socialist couple from Beauce, challenges this interpretation of the regional culture. Quand le peuple fait la loi (1972) and Les Beaucerons, ces insoumis (1974), their common work, portray a regionalism based on resistance, solidarity and egalitarianism. Drawing form regional history, Ferron and Cliche denounce a popular alienation from governmental institutions and praise a decentralized organisation, constantly undermined by the incapacity, or unequivocal refusal, of the centralized power to respect the people’s sovereignty. The resistance of the Beauce region would both be a warning signal and a beacon to guide future actions.

La transformation de la philosophie à l’Université de Montréal (1922-1963)

Jean-Claude Simard and Yvan Lamonde, †
This study offers an initial exploration of the complete catalogue of theses, dissertations and bachelor’s degrees (licenses) in philosophy submitted to universities in Quebec, from the earliest days to the present. This unique tool now makes it possible to document with precision the development and institutional transformations of this discipline over the last century. The article focuses more specifically on the Faculty of Philosophy at the Université de Montréal, the first of its kind in French-speaking Quebec. Data on past students have made it possible to identify five main types of academic pathway, each illustrating a different lifestyle. The year 1963, terminus ad quem of this analysis, represented a shifting point that confirmed the withdrawal of Thomistic orthodoxy and announced the progressive disappearance of Christian philosophies. It was only from that moment onwards that a modern philosophy, more attuned with the era, could emerge.

Louise Bienvenue. Marie-Claire Daveluy : une femme à la table des historiens (1880-1968), Québec, Presses de l’Université Laval, 2025, coll. « Fabrique d’histoire », 432 p.

Mylène Bédard

François Charbonneau. L’affaire Cannon : enquête sur le combat d’un médecin afro-américain contre la discrimination raciale au Château Frontenac, Montréal, Éditions du Boréal, 2025, 328 p.

Samia Dumais

Marie-Laurence Raby. Braver l’interdit : histoire féministe de l’avortement au Québec 1969-1988, Montréal, Éditions du remue‑ménage, 2025, 220 p.

Andrée Rivard