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Little Mary was sounding very sleepy, so I tucked her in bed.

Half the ingenuity lavished on news—by news we mean the topics of the day as connected with their own circle—half this ingenuity would set up a whole Society of Antiquaries, and immortalise at least a dozen of them.

Marc Renaud argues that the social changes that occurred during the “quiet revolution,” combined with the lack of managerial employment opportunities for Québécers in the Anglo-controlled private sector, led a “new middle class” to seek “social hegemony” in the provincial government.