![]() Marc, - Athanase who shocked the village by his friendship with the English, by his second marriage to a very young woman, by his private heresies, -and who finally broke with the church and ended his life without money or caste. In the beginning, it is the story of Athanase Tallard, seigneur of the Catholic, anti-British village of St. In other words, a good novel in the best tradition, - of regional, religious and family pressures, of dissolving standards in a modernizing world. ![]() ![]() A novel of considerable substance and balance, with a thematic problem in its presentation of one of Canada's minorities (this time the French-Catholic), well differentiated characterization, and an appealing love story. ![]()
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