Family Without a Name | |
Title Orig: | Famille-sans-nom |
Author: | Jules Verne |
Illustrator: | Georges Tiret-Bognet |
Country: | France |
Language: | French |
Series: | The Extraordinary Voyages #33 |
Genre: | Adventure novel |
Publisher: | Pierre-Jules Hetzel |
Release Date: | 1889 |
English Pub Date: | 1889 |
Media Type: | Print (Hardback) |
Preceded By: | Two Years' Vacation |
Followed By: | The Purchase of the North Pole |
Family Without a Name (French: Famille-sans-nom) is an 1889 adventure novel by Jules Verne about the life of a family in Lower Canada (present-day Quebec) during the Lower Canada Rebellion of 1837 and 1838 that sought an independent and democratic republic for Lower Canada. In the book, the two sons of a traitor fight in the Rebellion in an attempt to make up for the crime of their father.[1]
The 1978 edition, published at the French publishing house of the Union générale d'éditions, displayed upon the cover the mention "Pour un Québec libre" (For a Free Quebec). This was a decade after the Vive le Québec libre speech of French President Charles de Gaulle, two years after the first election of a contemporary independence party in Quebec, the Parti Québécois, and two years before their promised referendum on independence occurred in 1980. Lévesque had also made an important state visit to France a year before.