Excerpt from Maria Chapdelaine: A Tale of the Lake St. John Country His first contribution to literature was a story, La Riviere, submitted in competition to a sporting paper, the Velo, in 1904. This gained him the first prize, and its qualities in matter and style brought the prediction that he would take a distinguished place among French authors. Only now is such a place definitely accorded him, but at last, for all time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.