The Historian · Marguerite · Montréal
Rue Saint-Denis and the Quartier Latin
If the Main is the immigrant artery, Saint-Denis is the francophone cultural one. The Quartier Latin grew around the old Université de Montréal and the Sulpician library; its cabarets, theatres, and cafés nurtured the chansonniers and intellectuals whose ideas drove the 1960s Quiet Revolution that transformed Quebec from a church-dominated society into a modern secular state. Read the street as the cradle of modern francophone identity.
The historic spine of French-Canadian intellectual and cultural life — the old university quarter, cabarets, and theatres that fed the Quiet Revolution.
— Marguerite, The Historian
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