Le mystère de Beaucage

Description:

Author Camille Perron, from Astorvile originally, just outside of North Bay. He was a teacher at the Algonquin Secondary School, and a 'conteur'-teller of stories. He dedicated his book/play to his grandaughter Mireille. Book :14 cm wide and 21 and 1/2cm tall White with black sketched illustrations by André Chartrand. About 26 pages, with an illustration every other page. At the end of the book is the picture of the original stone itself on the shore of Lake Nipissing (Nipissingue), a short distance from the village of Beaucage with the inscription : "Ci-gît le dernier de vingt ans de bonheur qu'un père malheureux a changé en malédiction pour sa fille ingrate". Mr. Perron wrote the story : Le mystère de Beaucage, imagining how that engraving on the stone came to be. Shortly after he wrote this play, a group of actors performed it on stage in North Bay. Mr. Perron comes from a large family of Perrons, pioneers of the community of Astorville. We remember him as a gentle man, and his visits to our elementary schools where he would tell stories, dressed with his cap and 'ceinture fléchée', always tapping his cane before starting.

subjects: Littérature populaire canadienne-française,  Canadiens français,  Contes français,  Folklore

Places: Ontario