Maria Chapdelaine is a novel written in 1913 by the French writer Louis Hémon

Louis Hémon

Louis Hémon , was a francophone writer best known for his novel Maria Chapdelaine.- Biography :He was born in Brest, France. In Paris, where he resided with his family, he was enrolled in the Montaigne and Louis-le-Grand secondary schools...

, who was then residing in Quebec

Quebec

Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

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Adaptations

The novel has had three film adaptations, two French and one Québécois

Québécois

The French word Québécois and anglicised as ' , is used in both French and English to refer to different persons or concepts, depending on the language and/or the context in which the word is being used...

: in 1934, by Julien Duvivier

Julien Duvivier

Julien Duvivier was a French film director. He was prominent in French cinema in the years 1930-1960...

, with Madeleine Renaud

Madeleine Renaud

Madeleine Renaud was a distinguished actress and a major figure in French theater in the 20th century. She was born Lucie Madeleine Renaud in Paris and died there, aged 94, in 1994....

 (as Maria Chapdelaine), and Jean Gabin

Jean Gabin

-Biography:Born Jean-Alexis Moncorgé in Paris, he grew up in the village of Mériel in the Seine-et-Oise département, about 22 mi north of Paris. The son of cabaret entertainers, he attended the Lycée Janson de Sailly...

 (as François Paradis), partly filmed in Péribonka; in 1950 by Marc Allégret

Marc Allégret

Marc Allégret was a French screenwriter and film director.Born in Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland, he was the elder brother of Yves Allégret. Marc was educated to be a lawyer. Allégret became André Gide's lover when he was fifteen and Gide was forty-seven...

 in a free interpretation of the work called The Naked Heart; and in 1984 by Gilles Carle with Carole Laure

Carole Laure

Carole Laure is an actress and singer from the province of Quebec in Canada.-Career:Throughout most of her career, Carole Laure primarily collaborated with Anglophone singer, songwriter, producer, and director Lewis Furey, whom she met in 1977 and who later became her husband...

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The novel has also been adapted as plays, illustrated novels, radio-novels, and televised series. Authors have even published continuations of the novel.

External links

• Text of Maria Chapdelaine (in French) Project Gutenberg
• Maria Chapdelaine, audio version (in French)
• Maria Chapdelaine Summary