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Family Without a Name

Family Without a Name
AuthorJules Verne
Original titleFamille-sans-nom
IllustratorGeorges Tiret-Bognet
LanguageFrench
SeriesThe Extraordinary Voyages #33
GenreAdventure novel
PublisherPierre-Jules Hetzel
Publication date
1889
Publication placeFrance
Published in English
1889
Media typePrint (Hardback)
Preceded byTwo Years' Vacation 
Followed byThe Purchase of the North Pole 

Family Without a Name (French: Famille-sans-nom) is an 1889 adventure novel by Jules Verne about the life of a family in Lower Canada (present-day Quebec) during the Lower Canada Rebellion of 1837 and 1838 that sought an independent and democratic republic for Lower Canada. In the book, the two sons of a traitor fight in the Rebellion in an attempt to make up for the crime of their father.[1]

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Publication history

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The 1978 edition, published at the French publishing house of the Union générale d'éditions, displayed upon the cover the mention "Pour un Québec libre" (For a Free Quebec). This was a decade after the Vive le Québec libre speech of French President Charles de Gaulle, two years after the first election of a contemporary independence party in Quebec, the Parti Québécois, and two years before their promised referendum on independence occurred in 1980. Lévesque had also made an important state visit to France a year before.

References

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  1. ^ Patton, JoAnna Burns (September 1983). "FAMILY WITHOUT A NAME". Canadian Review of Materials. 11 (5).
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