Louise Bienvenue

Louise Bienvenue, Marie-Claire Daveluy. Une femme à la table des historiens (1880-1968). Presses de l’Université Laval, 2025.

Marie-Claire Daveluy. Une femme à la table des historiens (1880-1968) is the first comprehensive biography of a Quebec historian, who was also a novelist and a pioneer in library science. A prominent female figure in fields dominated by men, Marie-Claire Daveluy made a remarkable contribution to the cultural development of French Canada. Taking into account the constraints and advantages of Daveluy’s environment, Louise Bienvenue reveals a fascinating personal and intellectual world that combines traditionalism, Catholicism, feminism, and a passion for history, particularly that of Montreal. With a nimble and elegant pen, the author highlights Daveluy’s strength of character. As a committed historian, she engages in a dialogue with her predecessor that reveals the evolution of the discipline of history in Quebec over the past hundred years.

SHORTLIST (in alphabetical order):

• Louise Bienvenue, Marie-Claire Daveluy. Une femme à la table des historiens (1880-1968). Presses de l’Université Laval, 2025.
• Gérard Bouchard, Terre des humbles. Les Saguenayens 1840-1940. Éditions du Boréal, 2025.
• Frédéric Mercure Jolette, Réinventer Montréal. Ambitions et revers de trois urbanistes des Trente Glorieuses. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2025.