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Montréal Secret: Chroniques insolites (1535 - 1900)
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 24 2026
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: French
Montréal a une histoire officielle. Une fondation, des évêques, des dates gravées sur des plaques de bronze.
Et puis il y a le reste.
Un enfant de six ans retrouvé mort sur la glace du Saint-Laurent, la main gelée levée vers le ciel. Un chansonnier condamné au carcan en place publique pour avoir moqué un apothicaire. Quarante noyés dans une barque de Laprairie dont la complainte se transmettait encore de bouche en bouche soixante ans après la tragédie. Des sociétés secrètes avec des mots de passe, des cagoules et des têtes de mort. Un imprimeur alsacien emprisonné à son arrivée à Montréal, qui finit quand même par fonder La Gazette.
Ces histoires n'ont pas disparu. Elles attendaient dans les archives.
C'est Édouard-Zotique Massicotte, archiviste infatigable du début du XXe siècle, qui les en a tirées après des années à fouiller les actes de notaires, les registres paroissiaux, les procès-verbaux et les dossiers judiciaires que personne d'autre n'avait pris la peine de lire.
Montréal Secret rassemble ses chroniques les plus saisissantes, organisées en trois parties:
Crimes, scandales et justice - des accusations portées contre Marguerite Bourgeoys, des incendies dévastateurs, des enfants engagés comme domestiques à l'âge de deux ans, un chansonnier puni pour ses vers satiriques.
Révoltes, résistances et tragédies - la noyade collective de 1819, les Fils de la Liberté, les Chasseurs, les Francs Frères, les combats oubliés de la Rivière-des-Prairies.
Les artisans de la ville - les premiers syndics élus dans un hangar, les arpenteurs qui ont tracé les rues de Montréal, l'origine du nom des Soeurs Grises, la première visite de Cartier à Hochelaga en 1535.
Seize chroniques. Trois siècles. Une ville que vous croyiez connaître.
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