- Family Without a Name
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name = Family Without a Name
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author =Jules Verne
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country =France
language = French
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genre =Novel
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release_date = 1889
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preceded_by =Two Years' Vacation
followed_by =The Purchase of the North Pole "Family Without a Name" ( _fr. Famille-sans-nom, 1889) is a
novel byJules Verne about the life of a family inLower Canada (present-dayQuebec ) during theLower 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.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 PresidentCharles de Gaulle , two years after the first election of a contemporary independence party in Quebec, theParti 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.See also
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Quebec nationalism
*Quebec independence movement
*History of Quebec
*Timeline of Quebec history External links
* [http://www.julesverne.ca/vernebooks/jvbkfamily.html Pictures of various elaborate book covers of the novel.]
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