Abstract
Notre Legende doree, par un frere mariste, by Brother Ernest-Beatrix (ne Hilaire-Ernest Bergeron [1885-1962]) purports to be a patriotic and educational work (see Appendix 1), which was shaped according to the didactic-exemplum literary genre. Let me describe Notre Legende doree and suggest where it stands in the context of the history of children's literature. If one considers the 1923 Notre Legende doree from the perspective of the history of children's literature and of history itself, it is clear that the children for whom Brother Ernest-Beatrix was writing were miniature adults for whose benefit the dominant values of religious, social, and political conservatism among contemporary French-Canadians were being proudly displayed. Some topics in the three-volume book which account for and fos-
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