I
recently finished Robert Rumilly’s Histoire de Montréal, Tome I (of VI). Rumilly
himself was a reactionary Catholic born in France who expatriated to Canada in
the early 20th century and, in his own words, “did not come to New
France, but to another France that resembled France before 1899.” If you can
imagine a Frenchman who didn’t think the Belle Époque was quite so belle, that would be Robert Rumilly.
