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Almost a thousand years of naval wars and rivalries between these two brotherly countries have left a deep scar of resentment that slashes their respective History. These battles were also a school of courage, fearlessness, and fortitude. But this ''millennium'' of incessant hostility has also worn out the lifeblood of these two countries to the sole benefit of commercial lobbies and war profiteers. This very complete book, stubbed with refere...

This book is a critical edition of the French, American, and English motivations during the American War of Independence, because ''where there is no freedom of blaming, there can be no genuine praise''. (Beaumarchais). The American Revolution is in full swing. Deep in their hearts, the Canadians of the defunct New France will take advantage of the opportunity to free themselves from the English occupiers. But does France care about recovering...

Three children are willingly reduced to miniature size by a Native American sorcerer. They decide to travel from Newfoundland to Canada's West Coast on the backs of wild geese. They are pursued by two mean birds eager to do them harm... thrilling adventures enhanced by local legends in each of the ten provinces. Meet Caroline, Valerie, and their brother in these adventures. It will be a valuable roadmap to guide your children over the next few...

An anthology of memories from a whole life. This old man's memory remains a source of enrichment for those who know how to read between the lines, an invigorating experience. Feeling that the programmed obsolescence of his life, which had already destroyed the motor faculties of his body, was beginning to ravage his mind and the memories of his existence, the narrator endeavored to revisit his distant past, to dust off the already infected sto...

Love and hate were once the main purveyors of the gallows. The tragic fates of three women executed by hanging in the days of New France and the United-Canada bear witness to this. Reconstructing the events from historical articles and, above all, from the Ottawa Criminal Archives, the author recounts these little-known stories that animated the lives of former Canadians: ¿The crime and hanging of a young Montreal slave, Marie-Joseph Angélique...

Are you opposed to death penalty? If you are in favor, it is likely that reading this book will convince you to oppose it because of the statistically inevitable miscarriages of justice. This work in two volumes brings to life fourteen women, with their strengths and weaknesses, their inexpiable crimes and their inhuman punishments, their guilt or their innocence. They are the only Canadian women who died by Court Order in what is now our grea...

In these pages, the author has tried to bring to life some of the Canadian women sentenced to death and hanged for crimes through the centuries. Some were unjustly hanged. Thus all these women victims of the gallows can still proclaim their innocence beyond the tombstone, after centuries of silence. For, some of them are certainly entitled to convince us that they were, alas, victims of judicial errors and that their lives were unduly confisca...

In 1710, France, which was fighting against the whole of Europe, to impose a Frenchman on the throne of the Spanish Empire, was on the verge of succumbing and being dismembered. So, the French bribed England into abandoning its Allies on all battlefields and to stop subsidizing and funding the war against the French. This monographic research aims to objectively reveal this unusual diplomatic adventure that allowed France and England to emerge...

The Battle of Grand Coteau remains one of the greatest sources of pride for Métis peoples in Western Canada. On that day, July 13, 1851, a handful of 80 proud and daring Métis fighters came up against 2, 000 intrepid Sioux warriors. The latter, absolute Masters of the Prairie, had decided to prohibit the Métis from hunting bison, which was essential to the very survival of this French-speaking people. The fierce battle lasted two long days and...

Un vieillard raconte quelques souvenirs de sa longue vie, tout au long de vingt nouvelles (short stories). Les souvenirs de cet homme restent une source d'enrichissement. Dans cet ouvrage, il plonge dans des impressions intimes qui l'ont mené à un voyage encore plus grand : celui que l'on fait en soi.

Durant la Guerre d'IndZpendance amZricaine s'affrontent la France et l'Angleterre. Au fond de leur coeur, les Canadiens-Fran?ais esp?rent que la France va reprendre le Canada. Pour la premi?re fois sans alliZs dans une guerre contre la France, l'Angleterre s'Zcroule dans une dZfaite humiliante sous les applaudissements des autres puissances europZennes : Prusse, Autriche, Espagne, Russie, Pays-Bas... Pourquoi les Fran?ais ne profitent-ils pas ...