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Martine-Emmanuelle Lapointe

Robert Rumilly, passeur des droites nationalistes entre la France et le Canada français

Olivier Dard
This article focuses on Robert Rumilly and on his role as a transmitter between the right-wing nationalisms of France and French Canada. Born in France, Rumilly was strongly influenced by the thought of Charles Maurras. He immigrated to Canada in 1928, became a naturalised citizen in 1934, and would never again return to France. The present article will be elaborated chronologically and in three stages. Firstly, the relationship between Rumilly, maurrasism and French Canada will be examined. His denunciation of the purge that followed the collapse of the Vichy regime will then be analysed. Rumilly, a convinced Petainist, recycled French themes on the épuration in his Canadian writing. Finally, his Canadian crusade against "left-wing infiltration," subversion, and the influence of "left-wing Catholics" will be examined. In this postwar campaign, Rumillys long-standing tendency to recycle French themes in his writing was accompanied by a corresponding tendency to reinterpret Canadian events in light of right-wing French anxieties and to overlay French concerns on Canadian issues.

L’évolution des sciences au Canada français examinée à partir de la mycologie

Guy Gaudreau
This article focuses on the evolution of mycology in French Canada since the mid nineteenth century. Through an examination of this specific discipline, wider scientific practices will be considered, along with the key role played in French Canadian scientific development by Brother Marie-Victorin and the Brothers of the Christian Schools. As a result of the role that Marie-Victorin played in creating the Cercles des jeunes naturalistes and through his promotion of American and North American research, he fostered the career of many scientists, including René Pomerleau, who was important to the development of mycology in French Canada. However, though Pomerleau is generally credited with the creation of the two first amateur French Canadian mycological societies, he was not alone in fostering the study of fungi. The article focuses particularly on the development of the Cercles des mycologues amateurs de Montréal, which was founded in 1950.

Un réseau indépendantiste dans le Québec des années 1930

Mathieu Noël
During the 1930s, the idea of Quebec independence was promoted and defended by several groups of young nationalists, including the Jeune-Canada, the Jeunesses patriotes, and contributors to the journals Vivre and La Nation. These different groups formed something of a network. They maintained ties to each other and sought to promote their ideas within French Canadian society. However, they were unable to achieve any real popular support and thus failed to transform their network into a wider social movement. This article presents and analyses the independentist network of the 1930s in order to better understand its development, along with the reasons that prevented it from becoming a social movement and the factors that brought about its disappearance in the latter years of the decade.

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