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Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé

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Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé (1786–1871) was a Canadian lawyer, writer, and seigneur. He is known chiefly for his novel Les Anciens Canadiens, considered the first classic of French Canadian fiction.

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“The poets have sung in every key this being who came all beauty from the hands of her Creator; but what is all this physical beauty compared to the spiritual beauty of a noble and high-souled woman?”

— Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé《Les Anciens Canadiens》

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Les Anciens Canadiens

Les Anciens Canadiens is an 1863 novel by Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé. Its themes and subject matter include life in Canada. Together, these subjects provide the book with its main literary, historical, social, or intellectual context.

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