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Pour la Patrie is a futuristic roman à clef
Roman à clef
Roman à clef or roman à clé , French for "novel with a key", is a phrase used to describe a novel about real life, overlaid with a façade of fiction. The fictitious names in the novel represent real people, and the "key" is the relationship between the nonfiction and the fiction...

 written in the 1890s by Jules-Paul Tardivel
Jules-Paul Tardivel
Jules-Paul Tardivel was an American–Québécois writer and a significant promoter of Quebec nationalism....

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The book is about a francophone
Francophone
The adjective francophone means French-speaking, typically as primary language, whether referring to individuals, groups, or places. Often, the word is used as a noun to describe a natively French-speaking person....

ville uncovering an Anglo-Saxon masonic conjure.

The book is futuristic, anticipating things like the fax-machine and biological warfare.
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