bibaud ichel (1 Ergebnisse)

16mo, 17cm, The First Edition, 178p., title vignette, illus'd text devices throughout, quarter red cloth backed original boards, untrimmed, paper label, complete with half title, a fine clean copy thus, rare. (cgc). "It includes four long satires on ignorance, avarice, laziness, and envy, which he regarded as the besetting sins of French Canadians." (Story). Dionne I 193. Gagnon I-272. Lande 1576. Morgan p30. Sabin 5158. T.P.L. 1569 (imperfect). Story p. 69. - "No writer worked harder in the preparation of the first literary flowering than Michael Bibaud who devoted his entire life to educating his compatriots in this regard. " best known for his Histoire du Canada, . It is as a poet that Bibaud deserves our attention, ptres, Satires, Chansons, Epigrammes, et Autres Pices de Vers. This is nothing but ryhmed prose, attacking the vices and short comings of Canadians, he exhorts them to mend their ways and, particularly, to speak better French. ." Tougas. History of French Canadian Literature.