Memoirs of a Less Travelled Road: A Historian's Life
Trudel, Marcel / Brierley, Jane
Marcel Trudel influenced a generation of French-Canadian historians. He always strove for intellectual freedom, sometimes scandalizing the French-Canadian religious and academic establishment. In 1960 he shocked readers when he revealed the prevalence of slavery in New France and later explored the life of Chiniquy, the Catholic priest who became a Protestant pastor. Although now widely admired in English and French Canada, Trudel's uncompromi...