Balder Ex-Libris

Author : Arcand Adrien
Title : What is a french-canadian ?
Year : 1963

Link download : Arcand_Adrien_-_What_is_a_french-canadian.zip

Foreword. One day, about fifty years ago, the Chief Justice of the Privy Council of England, who was passing through Montreal, put this question to his audience in a room at the Ritz-Carlton : "What is a French Canadian ?" A young journalist employed at La Presse, whose name was Adrien Arcand, gave this admirable reply : "Sir, the French-Canadian is the only man on Earth who has the genius of the two greatest civilizations, carried to the highest degree : the Latin civilization and the Saxon civilization." Lord Birkenhead, astonished, replied : "Young man, I now understand why your lawyers are so brilliant when they plead before the Privy Council in London. I wondered where their beautiful balance of spirit came from. You have given me the explanation I was looking for." ...