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Just like the first three volumes of Québec Insolite, this fourth volume will immerse you even more deeply in stories that are all as surprising as each other. Did you know that the patron saint of anesthesiologists, René Goupil, died from a blow to the head with a tomahawk in 1642? The Catholic Church is not short of humor from time to time. September 1738: a boy that everyone calls Jacques La Fargue disembarks from the ship Saint-Michel in Quebec City. But there is a stir when his true identity is revealed. She is in fact Esther Brandeau, a Jewish woman born in France who will cause many headaches for the intendant of New France, Gilles Hocquart. Werewolves in the woods of New France? The archives remain desperately silent on this question. But in 1766, a few years after the Conquest, the Quebec Gazette made headlines with a most astonishing article: a werewolf was supposedly in the heart of Kamouraska! During American Prohibition, the border between Quebec and the United States was teeming with smugglers thirsty for wealth, ready to do anything to make their fortune in the lucrative trade of selling alcohol and beer to Americans. One of these adventurers was named Conrad Labelle. He became practically a legend in the milieu, met Al Capone and even toasted with champagne with American President Warren Harding. In 1983, as part of the Quebec Sports Championships held in Rouyn-Noranda, the organizers had an idea that was as genius as it seemed impossible: to invite the great Muhammad Ali to give a lecture on his career. But nothing goes as planned.. 2018: a two-hundred-year-old house is dismantled and stored in containers in Varennes. Six years later, we are still waiting to see what fate will be reserved for it..
