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Find Old Québec literary treasures! CÔTE DE QUIZ LA CAN RUE SAINTNICOLAS OTE RUE SAINTPAUL th RIE Until September 6 , participate online EST R LIE R or fill the participation coupon and drop AL TS UE SO V R RUE HAMEL USLE PA CA M P it at the following locations : Librairie RE CÔTE DINANS E SAINT E Pantoute, Morrin Centre, Maison E D RUE D RU HÔTELDIEU de la littérature or Bibliothèque de CÔTE DU PALAIS DE QUÉBEC l’Assemblée nationale du Québec. RUE HÉBERT 1. Where can you see a former prison OIX EV PARC and a historic library ? RL RUE DE LA VIEILLEUNIVERSITÉ HA COUILLARD E C RU 2. What was located on the current site RUE GARNEAU of the Château Frontenac in 1764 ? RUE SAINTEFAMILLE N I H CÔTE DE LA FABRIQUE P U RUE SAINTSTANISLAS A Name a title that can be seen in the shop D 3. T PLACE DES RUE DES GLACIS RUE MCMAHON R window of the Librairie Pantoute. O CANOTIERS P E U PARC R HÔTEL DE VILLE MONTMORENCY DE QUÉBEC 4. What was the name of the first female RUE ELGIN C RUE DE BUADE Ô T professor who taught at the Faculté des lettres E D de l’Université Laval ? EAN E L A M O RUE SAINTEANGÈLE RUE COOK N RUE SAINT T AG PLACE 5. At which café was Chrystine Brouillet working S N E DE PARIS IN when she wrote Dear Neighbor ? RUE DU FORT AVENUE HONORÉMERCIERRUE RICHELIEU D R A PLACE S D'ARMES E In 1944, the Maison de la littérature’s current E D 6. U R location was occupied by another landmark. EXPOSITION Which one ? VIEUX-QUÉBEC RUE DAUPHINE R U LITTÉRAIRE E D RUE SAINTEANNE RUE SAINTEURSULE U At the Séminaire de Québec, how do you 7. T RUE DES CARRIÈRES R É call the place where books put on the Index S O R were kept ? IS U O RUE D'AUTEUIL L INT A S PARC 8. What was the name of the first Canadian E JARDIN DES U newspaper ? R GOUVERNEURS FÉLIXFÉLIX PARC DE RUE DE LA PORTE PARC SAINTSAINT LECLERC L'ESPLANADE RUE DES GRISONS MATTHEW PARC DU CAVALIERCAVALIER 9. Name an author who lived in Old Québec. DUMOULINDU MOULIN E 10. What year was Québec City labeled EVIÈV as a UNESCO City of Literature ? GEN E SA INTE NU FONTAINE AVE DE TOURNY A VENUE SAINTDENIS PARTICIPATION COUPON R UE D E Name : S PA R L Email : E M PARC DU BASTIONBASTION ENTA GRANDE ALLÉE EST DELAREINEDE LA REINE Postal code : I RES Answers : rallyevieux-quebeclitteraire.ca Séminaire de Québec Alain Grandbois Ondinnok The Séminaire’s collection dating from Mgr François « C’est dans cette petite chambre […] Porteur des peines du monde (1987) de Laval que j’écrivis mes premiers poèmes.5 » Founded in 1985, Ondinnok is the first Indigenous French-language Since its foundation by Mgr François de Laval (1663), the Séminaire On this street lived the poet and novelist Alain Grandbois (1900-1975). theater company in Canada. Its first creation, Porteur des peines de Québec has amassed in its archives and library some 185,000 books As a teenager, he attended the Petit Séminaire and resided in a du monde, was presented at the Festival d’été de Québec (1987), and 65,000 ancient documents, dating from the 12th to the 20th century. boarding house for students where he wrote his first poems. attracting some 1,200 spectators each evening on the esplanade of In 2007, UNESCO added part of the collection (1623-1800) to the He recounts this episode in Visages du monde (1950-1952), a radio series Rue d’Auteuil. In thirty-five years, the troupe has produced more than Memory of the World Register. All these treasures have been preserved of his most beautiful travels. For Grandbois, « [l]e visage de Québec thirty shows and events, placing itself at the heart of contemporary by the Musée de la civilisation since 1995. est l’un des plus émouvants parmi les visages du monde.6 » (“the face French-language Indigenous dramatic arts. of Québec City is one of the most moving faces of the world.”) Morrin Centre Université Laval Canada’s first learned society Jacques Poulin The intellectual heart of the Quartier latin Canada’s oldest surviving learned society, the Literary and Historical Jack Waterman’s Old Québec From the 1920s to the end of the 1960s, Old Québec enjoyed a strong Society of Quebec (1824) is a heritage gem in the capital. To this day, This house was the home of novelist Jacques Poulin (1937-), who used intellectual vitality, with bookstores and student cafés spreading out it manages the Morrin Centre, a cultural organization dedicated to it as the setting for The Heart of the Blue Whale7 (1970) and Volkswagen in the Quartier latin around Université Laval – until the latter moved gr the history and culture of Québec City’s English-speaking community. Blues8 (1984). Poulin’s Old Québec is a true literary myth : it is where to Sainte-Foy. The Faculty of Arts (1937), founded by M Camille Roy, Its historic library, with its unique character, is immortalized the hero Jack Waterman crosses paths with books and cats, a river laid the first foundations for a modern scientific reflection on national in novels by Louise Penny and Jacques Poulin. and ancient walls, intellectual waitresses and androgynous girls. literary history. To learn more about the literary Maison de la littérature - L’ICQ Maison François-Xavier-Garneau Nuit blanche and Les libraires magazines A unique institution in North America A national writer’s last home Carrying the voice of books history of Québec City and discover Since 1848, L’ICQ (Institut canadien de Québec) has been watching over François-Xavier Garneau (1809-1866) lived in this house for the last Rue Saint-Jean has been home to two important literary magazines : literature through its libraries and cultural programs. As manager of the two years of his life. Poet, notary, journalist, translator at the Legislative Nuit blanche (1982) and Les libraires (1998), whose influence has reached fascinating archives, please visit Bibliothèque de Québec since 1897, L’ICQ established a public library Assembly, and later clerk for the City of Québec, this literary man far beyond the walls of the city. Both magazines have promoted Québec and a performance hall in the former Wesley Temple in 1944. In 2015, is best known for his Histoire du Canada9, which qualified him as a and foreign literature throughout the province of Québec, as well as rallyevieux-quebeclitteraire.ca. the Maison de la littérature was inaugurated there, becoming a true national historian in his lifetime. In 2016, the Government of Québec in a large part of the French-speaking world. beacon of literature in Québec. designated him a historical figure. Library of the National Assembly of Québec In partnership with Chez Temporel Maison Cirice-Têtu Preserving the nation’s books Bibliothèque de l'Assemblée nationale du Québec, A “dear neighbor’s1” hideaway The De Koninck Family - A Cultural Household The Library of the National Assembly of Québec contains over 2 million In the 1980s, the novelist Chrystine Brouillet lived in Old Québec. While From 1935 to 1965, the Maison Cirice-Têtu was a cultural household documents, including 500 first editions of Québec literary works from L’Îlot des Palais, La Promenade des écrivains, th th studying at the Petit Séminaire, and subsequently at Université Laval, gravitating around the philosopher Charles De Koninck (1906-1965) the 19 and 20 centuries. One of its jewels is the collection of former Le Monastère des Augustines, Librairie Pantoute, she worked as a waitress at Chez Temporel. During this time she wrote and his wife Zoe Decruydt (1913-2008). The office, the living room and Premier Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau : classified as a“heritage Librairie Première Issue, Maison de la littérature, her first detective novel, Dear Neighbor2 (1982), where corpses popped the dining room welcomed many writers and intellectuals, to discuss document” by the Government of Québec, it includes valuable editions by European printers of the 15th and 16th centuries, as well as some Morrin Centre, Musée de la civilisation, Nuit blanche, up in every corner of the Quartier latin. The mythical café also hosts the society, culture and politics. Even today, the De Koninck family nurtures Temporel Mondays, poetry evenings organized by writer Guy Cloutier. the academic, cultural, athletic and social life of Québec City. of the earliest Canadian and Québecois prints. Pôle culturel du Monastère des Ursulines, Québec BD and SDC Vieux-Québec. La Gazette de Québec / Cavalier-du-Moulin L’Îlot des Palais The Quebec Gazette The hidden heart of Old Québec The first public archives Beloved Québec City singer and author of the famous « La basse-ville10 » Most of the books and documents from New France came from the Research and writing : Marie-Ève Sévigny The first Canadian newspaper (1975), Sylvain Lelièvre published his first and only novel, Le troisième private archives of religious communities. The first public archives of The first printing press of the British colony arrived in Québec City Illustration : Julien Dallaire-Charest orchestre11, in 1996. It tells the story of Benoît, his alter ego, a gifted the colony were set up in 1733 in the vaults of the Palais by Intendant in 1764. On June 21st, the first Canadian newspaper in history was teenager from Limoilou, enamored with jazz and girls. One scene takes Gilles Hocquart (1729-1748), who ensured the preservation of a very Production : L’ICQ (Institut canadien de Québec) published : The Quebec Gazette / La Gazette de Québec.