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- Title
La correspondance Dantin–Nadeau (1933–1944): l'espace d'une rencontre.
- Authors
Godbout, Patricia
- Abstract
This article looks at the correspondence between Louis Dantin and the man who would inherit his archives, Gabriel Nadeau. Born in Saint-Césaire, Québec in 1900, Nadeau practiced medicine in New England until his death in 1979. In 1974, he donated his library and archives, which contained the correspondence of Louis Dantin, to the Bibliothèque nationale du Québec, today Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Quebec (BAnQ). On August 4, 1946, Nadeau wrote to Liliane Beaulieu, the daughter of Germain Beaulieu (who was also a friend and correspondent of Dantin's) that Louis Dantin had "confided to him the task of writing his life story." Concerned about fulfilling this mission with honor, Nadeau wrote to several of Dantin's correspondents to obtain biographical information and to find missing letters. He offered to the public the first excerpts of this correspondence when his work, Louis Dantin, sa vie et son œuvre , was published in 1948. Nadeau would also publish two other sets of correspondence in his "Cahiers Louis Dantin" during the 1960s: Les sentiments d'un père affectueux (1963), selected letters from Dantin to his son Joseph, as well as Lettres à Louis Dantin (1963) by Marie Le Franc. But what about the epistolary relationship comprised of some 75 letters that Dantin and Nadeau developed beginning in 1933, but particularly between 1942 and 1944? This article examines what this exchange teaches us about the lifestory that Dantin recounts to Nadeau in the majority of these letters, in response to questions that the biographer asked about Dantin's life in Belgium and in Québec, about his exile in Boston, and about the role he played in the publication of Émile Nelligan's poetry in 1904.
- Subjects
DANTIN, Louis; AUTHORS' correspondence; FRANCO-Americans; LITERARY criticism; INTELLECTUALS
- Publication
Quebec Studies, 2019, Vol 67, p13
- ISSN
0737-3759
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3828/qs.2019.3