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A touch of fire : Marie-André Duplessis, the Hôtel-Dieu of Quebec, and the writing of New France
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ISBN: 0228002354 0228002346 9780228002352 9780228002345 9780228000945 9780228000952 0228000955 0228000947 Year: 2020 Publisher: Montreal, Quebec : McGill-Queen's University Press,

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Marie-André Duplessis (1687-1760) guided the Augustinian sisters at the Hôtel-Dieu of Quebec - the oldest hospital north of Mexico - where she was elected mother superior six times. Although often overshadowed by colonial nuns who became foundresses or saints, she was a powerhouse during the last decades of the French regime and an accomplished woman of letters. She has been credited with Canada’s first literary narrative, Canada’s first music manual, and the first book by a Canadian woman printed during her own lifetime. In A Touch of Fire, the first biography of Duplessis, Thomas Carr analyzes how she navigated, in peace and war, the unstable, male-dominated colonial world of New France. Through a study of Duplessis's correspondence, her writings, and the rich Hôtel-Dieu archives, Carr details how she channelled the fire of her commitment to the hospital in order to advance its interests, preserve its history, and inspire her sister nuns. Duplessis chronicled New France as she wrote for and about her institution. Her administrative correspondence reveals her managerial successes and failures, and her private letters reshaped her friendship with a childhood Jansenist friend, Marie-Catherine Hecquet. Carr also delves into her relationship with her sister Geneviève Duplessis, who joined her in the cloister and became her managerial and spiritual partner. The addition of Duplessis's last letters provides a dramatic insider's view into the female experience of the siege and capture of Quebec in 1759. A Touch of Fire examines the life and work of an enterprising leader and major woman author of early Canada.


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L'histoire des neurosciences à Québec. Cinquante ans de recherche sur le cerveau et ses maladies
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ISBN: 276374186X 9782763741864 9782763741857 2763741851 Year: 2019 Publisher: Baltimore, Maryland : Baltimore, Md. : Project Muse, Project MUSE,

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Amorce par une toute petite poignee de chercheurs il y a cinquante ans, le domaine des neurosciences à Quebec compte aujourd'hui plus d'une centaine de neuroscientifiques de haut niveau, dissemines dans tout le reseau de l'Universite Laval. Leurs activites occupent tous les principaux creneaux du tres vaste domaine des sciences du cerveau, allant des aspects les plus fondamentaux du fonctionnement neuronal chez l'animal aux processus complexes qui sous-tendent la cognition humaine. On doit ce developpement retentissant aux efforts constants de tous ces chercheurs qui, au cours des ans, sont venus apporter leur pierre à l'edifice commun. Mais, avant tout, nous sommes redevables à des individus singuliers, comme Claude Fortier, Louis J. Poirier, Mircea Steriade, Fernand Labrie, Mme Carol L. Richards, Michel Maziade et Yves De Koninck, lesquels, en plus d'être des chercheurs productifs, ont fait montre d'un sens inne de l'organisation et du developpement de la recherche. Je souhaite que ce texte soit reçu comme un humble hommage à ces developpeurs, de même que comme un incitatif à poursuivre de façon particulierement energique la merveilleuse odyssee qu'ils ont entamee.

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