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Plus fort ! – L’histoire de Mme Audet

Translated from English to FrenchrnrnWith this book the author continues her legacy as a Quebec theatre historian by introducing anglophone readers to the legendary Madame Jean-Louis Audet who trained generations of Quebecers to value their linguistic heritage. While Madame Audet was a household name in the French-speaking neighbourhoods of Montreal, a regular feature on radio and stage from the 1930s onward, she was literally unknown by English- language compatriots, underlining Hugh MacLennan’s description of Montreal as being composed of “Two Solitudes.” Many of the Québécois stars of stage and screen are the former students of icon Madame Jean-Louis Audet and her famed studio in East-End Montreal.

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