All rights reserved © The Canadian Historical Association/La Société historique du Canada, 2000 This document is protected by copyright law. Use of the services of Érudit (including reproduction) is subject to its terms and conditions, which can be viewed online. https://apropos.erudit.org/en/users/policy-on-use/ This article is disseminated and preserved by Érudit. Érudit is a non-profit inter-university consortium of the Université de Montréal, Université Laval, and the Université du Québec à Montréal. Its mission is to promote and disseminate research. https://www.erudit.org/en/ Document generated on 08/05/2020 3:02 p.m. Journal of the Canadian Historical Association Revue de la Société historique du Canada Marching and Memory in Early Twentieth-Century Quebec: La Fête-Dieu, la Saint-Jean-Baptiste, and le Monument Laval Ronald Rudin Volume 10, Number 1, 1999 URI: https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/030514ar DOI: https://doi.org/10.7202/030514ar See table of contents Publisher(s) The Canadian Historical Association/La Société historique du Canada ISSN 0847-4478 (print) 1712-6274 (digital) Explore this journal Cite this article Rudin, R. (1999). Marching and Memory in Early Twentieth-Century Quebec: La Fête-Dieu, la Saint-Jean-Baptiste, and le Monument Laval. Journal of the Canadian Historical Association / Revue de la Société historique du Canada, 10 (1), 209–235. https://doi.org/10.7202/030514ar Article abstract During a three-day period in June 1908, 250,000 people attended a series of elaborate celebrations in Quebec City in honour of Mgr François de Laval, the first bishop of Quebec, upon the bicentenary of his death. A monument to Laval was unveiled on the middle day, in between the two most important summer festivals of the French-Canadian calendar. The Fête-Dieu (Corpus Christi) celebrations preceded the unveiling, while the Fête de la Saint-Jean-Baptiste followed. In planning the festivities, particular care was devoted to organising processions through the streets of Quebec City. These two processions, the former organised by clerics and the latter by laymen, sent somewhat contradictory messages to both spectators and participants. Nevertheless, they formed part of a collective effort by clerical and lay leaders to claim the streets of Quebec, in the process asserting their power at a time when French-Catholic society was being challenged from various quarters.
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All rights reserved © The Canadian Historical Association/La Société historiquedu Canada, 2000
This document is protected by copyright law. Use of the services of Érudit(including reproduction) is subject to its terms and conditions, which can beviewed online.https://apropos.erudit.org/en/users/policy-on-use/
This article is disseminated and preserved by Érudit.Érudit is a non-profit inter-university consortium of the Université de Montréal,Université Laval, and the Université du Québec à Montréal. Its mission is topromote and disseminate research.https://www.erudit.org/en/
Document generated on 08/05/2020 3:02 p.m.
Journal of the Canadian Historical AssociationRevue de la Société historique du Canada
Marching and Memory in Early Twentieth-Century Quebec: LaFête-Dieu, la Saint-Jean-Baptiste, and le Monument LavalRonald Rudin
Volume 10, Number 1, 1999
URI: https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/030514arDOI: https://doi.org/10.7202/030514ar
See table of contents
Publisher(s)The Canadian Historical Association/La Société historique du Canada
ISSN0847-4478 (print)1712-6274 (digital)
Explore this journal
Cite this articleRudin, R. (1999). Marching and Memory in Early Twentieth-Century Quebec: LaFête-Dieu, la Saint-Jean-Baptiste, and le Monument Laval. Journal of theCanadian Historical Association / Revue de la Société historique du Canada, 10(1), 209–235. https://doi.org/10.7202/030514ar
Article abstractDuring a three-day period in June 1908, 250,000 people attended a series ofelaborate celebrations in Quebec City in honour of Mgr François de Laval, thefirst bishop of Quebec, upon the bicentenary of his death. A monument toLaval was unveiled on the middle day, in between the two most importantsummer festivals of the French-Canadian calendar. The Fête-Dieu (CorpusChristi) celebrations preceded the unveiling, while the Fête de laSaint-Jean-Baptiste followed. In planning the festivities, particular care wasdevoted to organising processions through the streets of Quebec City. Thesetwo processions, the former organised by clerics and the latter by laymen, sentsomewhat contradictory messages to both spectators and participants.Nevertheless, they formed part of a collective effort by clerical and lay leadersto claim the streets of Quebec, in the process asserting their power at a timewhen French-Catholic society was being challenged from various quarters.
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