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{{Short description|Woman from New France who murdered her second husband (1733–1763)}} |
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| birth_date = January or February 1733<ref group="Note" name="baptism"/> |
| birth_date = January or February 1733<ref group="Note" name="baptism"/> |
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| birth_place = [[Saint-Vallier, Quebec|Saint-Vallier]], New France |
| birth_place = [[Saint-Vallier, Quebec|Saint-Vallier]], New France |
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| death_date = {{Death date|1763|04|18|mf=y}} ( |
| death_date = {{Death date|1763|04|18|mf=y}} (aged 30) |
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| death_place = [[Quebec City]] |
| death_place = [[Quebec City]] |
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| resting_place = [[Saint-Joseph-de-la-Pointe-De Lévy, Lévis]] |
| resting_place = [[Saint-Joseph-de-la-Pointe-De Lévy, Lévis]] |
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| nationality = |
| nationality = [[New France]] |
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| other_names = La Corriveau |
| other_names = La Corriveau |
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| known_for = [[Murder]] |
| known_for = [[Murder]] |
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[[File:Gibbet of La Corriveau (NYPL) (cropped-2).jpg|thumb|upright|The [[gibbet]] in which Corriveau was exhibited after her execution, the "cage" of Corriveau|alt=gibbet]] |
[[File:Gibbet of La Corriveau (NYPL) (cropped-2).jpg|thumb|upright|The [[gibbet]] in which Corriveau was exhibited after her execution, the "cage" of Corriveau|alt=gibbet]] |
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Marie-Josephte Corriveau was born in 1733, most probably in January or February,<ref group="Note" name="baptism">The record of the act of baptism, of May 14, 1733, indicates that she was about three months old.</ref> and baptised on May 14, 1733, in the rural parish of [[Saint-Vallier, Quebec|Saint-Vallier]] in [[New France]]. She was the only surviving offspring of Joseph Corriveau, a farmer, and Françoise Bolduc. Her ten brothers and sisters all died in childhood.<ref name="Bonneau p44">{{harvnb|Bonneau|1988|p=44}}.</ref> |
Marie-Josephte Corriveau was born in 1733, most probably in January or February,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gélinas |first=Marion |title=A Shrine for Marie-Josephte Corriveau and for all women who are victims of domestic violence |url=https://open.library.ubc.ca/media/stream/pdf/42591/1.0390867/4 |access-date=17 September 2024 |website=[[University of British Columbia]] |page=14}}</ref><ref group="Note" name="baptism">The record of the act of baptism, of May 14, 1733, indicates that she was about three months old.</ref> and baptised on May 14, 1733, in the rural parish of [[Saint-Vallier, Quebec|Saint-Vallier]] in [[New France]]. She was the only surviving offspring of Joseph Corriveau, a farmer, and Marie-Françoise Bolduc. Her ten brothers and sisters all died in childhood.<ref name="Bonneau p44">{{harvnb|Bonneau|1988|p=44}}.</ref> |
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==Marriages and deaths of spouses== |
==Marriages and deaths of spouses== |
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Corriveau married at the age of 16, on November 17, 1749, to Charles Bouchard, aged 23, also a farmer. Three children were born in this marriage: two daughters, Marie-Françoise (1752) and Marie-Angélique (1754), followed by a son, Charles (1757). Rumors (that only started after the death of her second husband) say that she murdered him, as there is no concrete record of his death. Charles Bouchard was buried on April 27, 1760, and she remarried fifteen months later, on July 20, 1761, to another farmer from Saint-Vallier, Louis Étienne Dodier. On the morning of January 27, 1763, he was found dead in his barn, with multiple head wounds. Despite an official recording of the cause of death being from kicks of horses' hooves, and a speedy burial, rumours and gossip of murder spread rapidly through the neighbourhood. Dodier was on bad terms with his father-in-law and with his wife. |
Corriveau married at the age of 16, on November 17, 1749, to Charles Bouchard, aged 23, also a farmer. Three children were born in this marriage: two daughters, Marie-Françoise (1752) and Marie-Angélique (1754), followed by a son, Charles (1757). Rumors (that only started after the death of her second husband) say that she murdered him, as there is no concrete record of his death{{Snd}}he was said to have died of "putrid fevers".<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Pelchat |first=André |date=December 2018 |title=Macabre Discovery |magazine=[[Canada's History]] |volume=98 |issue=6 |issn=1920-9894}}</ref> Charles Bouchard was buried on April 27, 1760, and she remarried fifteen months later, on July 20, 1761, to another farmer from Saint-Vallier, Louis Étienne Dodier. On the morning of January 27, 1763, he was found dead in his barn, with multiple head wounds. Despite an official recording of the cause of death being from kicks of horses' hooves, and a speedy burial, rumours and gossip of murder spread rapidly through the neighbourhood.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=McBride |first=Jessica |year=2011 |title=From Vilified to Victorious: Reconceiving La Corriveau in Anne Hébert’s La Cage |url=https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/article/download/18920/20709/25046 |journal=[[Studies in Canadian Literature]] |publisher=[[University of New Brunswick]] |volume=36 |issue=2 |page=130}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Tarlow |first=Sarah |title=Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse |last2=Battell Lowman |first2=Emma |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |year=2018 |isbn=978-3-319-77907-2 |chapter=Hanging in Chains}}</ref> Dodier was on bad terms with his father-in-law and with his wife.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Grundhauser |first=Eric |date=November 2, 2017 |title=The Hanging Cage That Held an Infamous Québec Murderess |url=https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/la-corriveaus-cage-quebec-canada |access-date=September 17, 2024 |website=[[Atlas Obscura]]}}</ref> |
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==Arrest and trial== |
==Arrest and trial== |
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At the time, New France had been conquered by the British in 1760 as part of the [[Seven Years' War]] and was under the administration of the British Army. On hearing the rumours, the local British military authorities (charged with keeping order) set up an inquiry into Dodier's death. The inquiry opened in [[Quebec City]] on March 29, 1763, at the [[Ursulines of Quebec]], charging Joseph Corriveau and his daughter Marie-Josephte, before a military tribunal made up of 12 English officers and presided over by [[Lieutenant Colonel]] [[Roger Morris (British Army officer)|Roger Morris]]. The case ended, on |
At the time, New France had been conquered by the British in 1760 as part of the [[Seven Years' War]] and was under the administration of the British Army. On hearing the rumours, the local British military authorities (charged with keeping order) set up an inquiry into Dodier's death. The inquiry opened in [[Quebec City]] on March 29, 1763, at the [[Ursulines of Quebec]], charging Joseph Corriveau and his daughter Marie-Josephte, before a military tribunal made up of 12 English officers and presided over by [[Lieutenant Colonel]] [[Roger Morris (British Army officer)|Roger Morris]]. Many persons in the community had testified, including Joseph's niece and Marie-Josephte's cousin, a young woman approximately the same age as Marie-Josephte named Isabelle Sylvain. The case ended, on April 9, with Joseph Corriveau being sentenced to death, for culpable homicide of his son-in-law. Marie-Josephte was found to be an accomplice to murder, and sentenced to 60 [[whip|lashes]] and [[human branding|branded]] with the letter M on her hand. One of Joseph Corriveau's nieces, Isabelle Sylvain (who he employed as a servant), had testified but changed her story several times during the hearing; she was found guilty of [[perjury]] and given 30 lashes and branded with the letter P. |
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Condemned to hang, Joseph Corriveau then told his [[confessor]], that he was no more than an accomplice to his daughter, after she had killed Dodier. At a second trial, on |
Condemned to hang, Joseph Corriveau then told his [[confessor]], that he was no more than an accomplice to his daughter, after she had killed Dodier. At a second trial, on April 15, Marie-Josephte testified to having killed her husband with two blows of a hatchet during his sleep, because of his ill-treatment of her.<ref>{{harvnb|Lacourcière|1968|pp=230–231}} {{cite web |url=http://www.ourroots.ca/f/page.aspx?id=3649018 |title=Nos Racines / Our Roots |access-date=2010-07-22 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110614161400/http://www.ourroots.ca/f/page.aspx?id=3649018 |archive-date=2011-06-14 }} {{in lang|fr}}</ref> The tribunal found her guilty and sentenced her to hang, her body after to be "hanged in chains" (that is, put up for public display on a [[gibbet]]). |
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==Execution== |
==Execution== |
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The place of execution was Quebec, on the Buttes-à-Nepveu, near the [[Plains of Abraham]], probably on |
The place of execution was Quebec, on the Buttes-à-Nepveu, near the [[Plains of Abraham]], probably on April 18.<ref>{{harvnb|Lacourcière|1968|p=234}} {{cite web |url=http://www.ourroots.ca/f/page.aspx?id=3649022 |title=Nos Racines / Our Roots |access-date=2010-07-22 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110614162331/http://www.ourroots.ca/f/page.aspx?id=3649022 |archive-date=2011-06-14 }} {{in lang|fr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |year=1974 |title=CORRIVEAU (Corrivaux), MARIE-JOSEPHTE, known as La Corriveau |encyclopedia=[[Dictionary of Canadian Biography]] |publisher=[[University of Toronto]]/[[Université Laval]] |url=https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/corriveau_marie_josephte_3E.html |access-date=September 17, 2024 |last=Lacourcière |first=Luc |volume=3}}</ref> Her body was then taken, as directed by the sentence, to be put in chains at [[Lévis|Pointe-Lévy]], at the crossroads of Lauzon and Bienville <ref name="x">{{Coord|46|49|15.5|N|71|10|21.8|W|display=title}}</ref><ref name="Lacourcière-1968-p239">{{harvnb|Lacourcière|1968|p=239}} {{cite web |url=http://www.ourroots.ca/f/page.aspx?id=3649027 |title=Nos Racines / Our Roots |access-date=2010-07-22 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110614163125/http://www.ourroots.ca/f/page.aspx?id=3649027 |archive-date=2011-06-14 }}</ref> ( Rue Saint-Joseph and Rue de l'Entente).<ref group="Note">These were all near an ancient religious site between the Saint-Joseph and Vaudreuil roads. There was a religious monument called the {{lang|fr|Monument de la Tempérance}} which remained in the middle of the nineteenth century, until 1885.</ref> The body, in its iron gibbet, was exposed to the public view until May 25 at the earliest. Following the requests of those living nearby, an order from the military commander of the district of Quebec, [[James Murray (Quebec governor)|James Murray]], addressed to the captain of the militia of Pointe-Lévy, permitted its being taken down and buried.<ref name="Lacourcière-1968-p239"/> |
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In 1851, the "cage" was dug up from the cemetery of the church of Saint-Joseph-de-la-Pointe-Lévy when a pit was dug.<ref group="Note">Some renown attached to the bones recovered in this dig. The writer [[Louis Fréchette]] wrote about this discovery at the age of ten.</ref> Soon after, the cage was stolen from the church cellar, and acquired by the American impresario [[P. T. Barnum]] and put on display as a "macabre object".<ref name="Frechette">{{citation|first=Louis|last=Fréchette|chapter-url=http://www.cssh.qc.ca/coll/genealogie-sylvestre/Corriveau.htm|chapter=Une Relique – La Corriveau|title=Almanach du Peuple|year=1913|pages=302–307|language=fr|access-date=2010-07-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150610221744/http://www.cssh.qc.ca/coll/genealogie-sylvestre/Corriveau.htm|archive-date=2015-06-10|url-status=dead}}</ref> After that, it was put on display at [[The Boston Museum]]. The museum slip indicated its provenance with two words: "From Quebec".<ref name="Frechette" /> |
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Through the efforts of the Société d'histoire de Lévis, the cage was acquired from the Boston Museum and is now part of a permanent display at Musée de la civilisation in Quebec City.<ref>https://www.mcq.org/fr/communique-presse?id=321700</ref> |
Through the efforts of the Société d'histoire de Lévis, the cage was acquired from the Boston Museum and is now part of a permanent display at [[Musée de la civilisation]] in Quebec City.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mcq.org/fr/communique-presse?id=321700|title=LA CAGE DE LA CORRIVEAU ENTRE DANS LA COLLECTION NATIONALE DES MUSÉES DE LA CIVILISATION À QUÉBEC: Communiqués de presse: Musée de la civilisation - Québec: MCQ.org|website=www.mcq.org}}</ref> |
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== In legend == |
== In legend == |
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[[File:Cage de la Corriveau.jpg|thumb|right|La Corriveau, in her cage, attacking Father José (''José's Nightmare''), illustration by [[Henri Julien]] for an edition of ''Anciens Canadiens'' by [[Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé|Philippe Aubert de Gaspé]])|alt=Book illustration]] |
[[File:Cage de la Corriveau.jpg|thumb|right|La Corriveau, in her cage, attacking Father José (''José's Nightmare''), illustration by [[Henri Julien]] for an edition of ''Anciens Canadiens'' by [[Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé|Philippe Aubert de Gaspé]])|alt=Book illustration]] |
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The post-mortem exhibition of Corriveau's remains at a busy crossroads (a practice also in use under the French regime, and reserved in England for those found guilty of the most serious crimes);<ref>[[:fr:Peine de mort en France#Ancien R.C3.A9gime]]{{Better source|date=November 2015|reason=[[WP:CIRCULAR]]}} |
The post-mortem exhibition of Corriveau's remains at a busy crossroads (a practice also in use under the French regime, and reserved in England for those found guilty of the most serious crimes);<ref>[[:fr:Peine de mort en France#Ancien R.C3.A9gime]]</ref>{{Better source needed|date=November 2015|reason=[[WP:CIRCULAR]]}}<ref group="Note">See [[Gibbet]].</ref> the repercussions in the trial; the rumour that her father would be convicted of murdering Dodier at his daughter's instigation; and the gossip which grew up around the circumstances of the death of her first husband all stirred up the popular imagination and became legends still told today in the [[oral tradition]] — increasing the number of murdered husbands to as many as seven and likening la Corriveau to a [[witch]]. |
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The 1851 discovery of the iron cage buried in the cemetery of Saint-Joseph Parish (now the Lauzon district) served to reawaken the legends and the fantastic stories, which were amplified and used by 19th-century writers. The first, in 1863, [[Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé|Philippe Aubert de Gaspé]] in ''Les Anciens Canadiens'', has a supernatural Corriveau hanging in the Pointe-Levy cage that terrorizes one night a passer-by conducting a [[Witches' Sabbath]] and a [[will-o'-the-wisp]] at the [[Île d'Orléans]].{{sfn|Aubert de Gaspé|1863|loc=Chapter 4}} [[James MacPherson Le Moine]] (''Maple Leaves'', 1863){{sfn|MacPherson Le Moine|1863}} and [[William Kirby (author)|William Kirby]], following in his footsteps (''[[The Golden Dog]]'', 1877{{sfn|Kirby|1877}}), made her a professional poisoner, a direct descendant of [[La Voisin]], famous for her purported role in the [[Affair of the Poisons]]. Writers and historians such as [[Louis Fréchette]] and [[Pierre-Georges Roy]] have tried to give Corriveau's history, but without completely separating the facts from the anachronistic fantasies added in legend and novels.<ref name="DBC">{{harvnb|Lacourcière|1974}}</ref> |
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The figure of Corriveau still inspires novels, songs and plays and is the subject of arguments concerning guilt. Oral tradition also perpetuated and has not stopped |
The figure of Corriveau still inspires novels, songs and plays and is the subject of arguments concerning guilt. Oral tradition also perpetuated and has not stopped and remains alive, as is evidenced by the numerous stories collected in the lands of many regions of Quebec.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dickinson |first=John A. |date=January 21, 2007 |title=La Corriveau |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/la-corriveau |access-date=September 17, 2024 |website=[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]]}}</ref><ref group="Note">Notably the 52 stories collected between 1952 and 1973 under the direction of Luc Lacourcière ({{harvnb|Lacourcière|1973|pp=252–253}} {{cite web |url=http://www.ourroots.ca/f/page.aspx?id=3650205 |title=Nos Racines / Our Roots |access-date=2010-07-22 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110614160933/http://www.ourroots.ca/f/page.aspx?id=3650205 |archive-date=2011-06-14 }} and the 122 put together between 1975 and 1990 by the students of Nicole Guilbault ({{harvnb|Guilbault|1995|p=14}}).</ref> |
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== In popular culture == |
== In popular culture == |
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* '''1972''': ''La Corriveau'', song written by [[Gilles Vigneault]] in 1966 for the ballet of the same name, is recorded by [[Pauline Julien]] on her album {{lang|fr|Au milieu de ma vie, peut-être la veille de...}} |
* '''1972''': ''La Corriveau'', song written by [[Gilles Vigneault]] in 1966 for the ballet of the same name, is recorded by [[Pauline Julien]] on her album {{lang|fr|Au milieu de ma vie, peut-être la veille de...}} |
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* '''1973''': ''Ma Corriveau'', play by [[Victor-Lévy Beaulieu]] written for the public examinations of the students of the [[National Theatre School of Canada]], premièred at the [[Monument-National]], its Montreal base, from 3 to 6 October 1973 with a production by [[Michelle Rossignol]], first premièred professionally at the [[Théâtre d'Aujourd'hui]] in Montreal from 19 September to 30 October 1976 in a production by André Pagé.{{sfn|Beaulieu|1976|p=8}} |
* '''1973''': ''Ma Corriveau'', play by [[Victor-Lévy Beaulieu]] written for the public examinations of the students of the [[National Theatre School of Canada]], premièred at the [[Monument-National]], its Montreal base, from 3 to 6 October 1973 with a production by [[Michelle Rossignol]], first premièred professionally at the [[Théâtre d'Aujourd'hui]] in Montreal from 19 September to 30 October 1976 in a production by André Pagé.{{sfn|Beaulieu|1976|p=8}} |
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* '''1978''': {{lang|fr|Le Coffret de la Corriveau}}, fantasy story by {{Interlanguage link multi|André Carpentier|fr}},<ref>{{cite journal| language = |
* '''1978''': {{lang|fr|Le Coffret de la Corriveau}}, fantasy story by {{Interlanguage link multi|André Carpentier|fr}},<ref>{{cite journal| language = fr | first1 =André | last1 =Carpentier | author-link =André Carpentier | title =Le Coffret de la Corriveau | journal = Rue Saint-Denis: Contes Fantastiques | publisher = Hurtubise HMH | place =Montreal | year =1978 | pages =75–92 | isbn =0-7758-0165-8}}, reissued by André Carpentier in 1988 (Quebec Library, Montreal), translated into English in 2000 and Italian in 2004 ([http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5649232/editions?editionsView=true&referer=di Worldcat]).</ref> translated into English in 1982.<ref>{{cite journal | first = André | last = Carpentier | author-link = André Carpentier | title = The Chest of Madame Corriveau | journal = Matrix | volume = 17 |date=Winter 1982 | pages = 41–48}}.</ref> |
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* '''1981''': ''La Corriveau'', historical novel by Andrée LeBel<ref>{{cite book | language = |
* '''1981''': ''La Corriveau'', historical novel by Andrée LeBel<ref>{{cite book | language = fr | first1 = Andrée | last1 = LeBel | title = La Corriveau | url = https://archive.org/details/lacorriveau0000lebe | url-access = registration | publisher = Libre Expression | place = Montreal | year = 1981| isbn= 9782891110563}}</ref> |
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* '''1990''': ''La Cage'', play by [[Anne Hébert]],<ref>{{cite book | language = |
* '''1990''': ''La Cage'', play by [[Anne Hébert]],<ref>{{cite book | language = fr | first1 = Anne | last1 = Hébert | author-link = Anne Hébert | title = La Cage, suivi de L'Île de la Demoiselle | publisher = Boréal Express / Seuil | place = Montreal/Paris | year = 1990 | isbn = 9782890523203 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/lacagesuividelil0000hebe }}</ref> translated into English in 2009.<ref>{{cite book | first = Anne | last = Hébert | author-link = Anne Hébert |translator=Reid, Gregory J. |translator2=Grant, Pamela |translator3=Fischman, Sheila | title = Two Plays: The Cage and L'Île de la Demoiselle | publisher = Playwrights Canada Press |location=Toronto | year = 2009 | isbn = 978-0-88754-855-0}}</ref> |
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* '''1993''' |
* '''1993''': ''La Corriveau'', short story by the English Canadian [[Douglas Glover (writer)|Douglas Glover]],<ref>{{cite journal | first = Douglas | last = Glover | title = La Corriveau | journal = Descant |location=Toronto | volume = 24 | issue = 4 | year = 1993 |issn=0382-909X}}</ref> translated into French the same year,<ref>{{cite journal | language = fr | first1 = Douglas | last1 = Glover | title = La Corriveau | journal = Meurtres à Québec | publisher = L'Instant même | place = Quebec | year = 1993 | pages = 9–24 }}.</ref> and into Serbian in 1995.<ref>{{cite web | url= http://mysite.verizon.net/vzesvmfd/douglasglover2/id18.html | title= Curriculum Vitae of Douglas Glover | access-date= October 21, 2009 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}.</ref> |
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* '''1993''': ''La Corriveau'', play by [[Guy Cloutier (writer)|Guy Cloutier]], produced by Denise Verville and staged at the {{Interlanguage link multi|Théâtre Périscope|fr}}, Quebec, from 12 to 30 January 1993. It was reprised, adapted for television with the title ''La Corrivaux'' by the director [[Jean Salvy]], with [[Anne Dorval]] in the title role, and broadcast on the [[Télévision Radio-Canada]] network in 1995. |
* '''1993''': ''La Corriveau'', play by [[Guy Cloutier (writer)|Guy Cloutier]], produced by Denise Verville and staged at the {{Interlanguage link multi|Théâtre Périscope|fr}}, Quebec, from 12 to 30 January 1993. It was reprised, adapted for television with the title ''La Corrivaux'' by the director [[Jean Salvy]], with [[Anne Dorval]] in the title role, and broadcast on the [[Télévision Radio-Canada]] network in 1995. |
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* '''1999''': ''La Maudite'', teen novel by Daniel Mativat<ref>{{cite book | language = |
* '''1999''': ''La Maudite'', teen novel by Daniel Mativat<ref>{{cite book | language = fr | first = Daniel | last = Mativat | title = La Maudite | series = Chacal | issue = 8 | publisher = Éditions Pierre Tisseyre | place = Saint-Laurent | year = 1999 | isbn = 9782890517233 | url = http://www.sdm.qc.ca/centre/bibliographies/lj99/nd/n9909062.html | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070322074628/http://www.sdm.qc.ca/centre/bibliographies/lj99/nd/n9909062.html | archive-date = 2007-03-22 }}</ref> |
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* '''2001''': ''La Corrida de la Corriveau'', song by [[Mes Aïeux]] (on the album ''{{Interlanguage link multi|Entre les branches|fr}}'') |
* '''2001''': ''La Corrida de la Corriveau'', song by [[Mes Aïeux]] (on the album ''{{Interlanguage link multi|Entre les branches|fr}}'') |
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* '''2003''': ''La Fiancée du vent |
* '''2003''': ''La Fiancée du vent: l'histoire de la Corriveau, née en Nouvelle-France et pendue sous le Régime anglais'', novel by [[Monique Pariseau]]<ref>{{cite book | language = fr | first =Monique | last =Pariseau | author-link=Monique Pariseau | title =La Fiancée du vent - l'histoire de la Corriveau, née en Nouvelle-France et pendue sous le Régime anglais | publisher = Libre Expression | place = Outremont | year = 2003 | isbn =9782764800669 | url =http://www.edlibreexpression.com/ficheProduit.aspx?codeprod=296394}}</ref> |
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* '''2003''': ''Julie et le serment de la Corriveau'', teen novel by {{Interlanguage link multi|Martine Latulippe|fr}}<ref>{{cite book | language = |
* '''2003''': ''Julie et le serment de la Corriveau'', teen novel by {{Interlanguage link multi|Martine Latulippe|fr}}<ref>{{cite book | language = fr | first = Martine | last = Latulippe | author-link = Martine Latulippe | author2 = Rousseau, May (illustrator) | title = Julie et le serment de la Corriveau | series = Bilbo Jeunesse | issue = 121 | publisher = Éditions Québec Amérique | place = Montreal | year = 2003 | isbn = 978-2-7644-0240-5 | url = http://www.quebec-amerique.com/00_TITRE/HTML_600D/675.html | access-date = 2010-07-22 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100413133639/http://www.quebec-amerique.com/00_TITRE/HTML_600D/675.html | archive-date = 2010-04-13 | url-status = dead }}</ref> |
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*'''2003''': Her story and the alleged paranormal aspects of it were featured in Episode 1 of Season 2 of the Canadian paranormal documentary series ''[[Creepy Canada]]'', which carried out and showed a reenactment of her story and its allegedly paranormal aspects. |
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* '''2004''': ''[[Battle of the Brave]] (Nouvelle-France)'', film produced by [[Jean Beaudin]] (loose adaptation on the theme of la Corriveau)<ref>{{cite journal| language = |
* '''2004''': ''[[Battle of the Brave]] (Nouvelle-France)'', film produced by [[Jean Beaudin]] (loose adaptation on the theme of la Corriveau)<ref>{{cite journal| language = fr | first = Odile| last = Tremblay | title = Le curé et la pendue | journal = [[Le Devoir]] | date = December 4, 2003 | url = http://ww.ledevoir.com/non-classe/42131/le-cure-et-la-pendue | access-date = April 12, 2010}}</ref> |
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* '''2006''': ''La Corriveau'', animated film by Kyle Craig |
* '''2006''': ''La Corriveau'', animated film by Kyle Craig |
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* '''2015''': Corriveau is featured on a postage stamp from [[Canada Post]]<ref>[https://www.canadapost.ca/web/en/blogs/announcements/details.page?article=2015/09/14/ghostly_tales_from_a&cattype=announcements&cat=newsreleases Ghostly tales from across the country in second Haunted Canada stamp issue], Canada Post news release, September 14, 2015</ref> |
* '''2015''': Corriveau is featured on a postage stamp from [[Canada Post]]<ref>[https://www.canadapost.ca/web/en/blogs/announcements/details.page?article=2015/09/14/ghostly_tales_from_a&cattype=announcements&cat=newsreleases Ghostly tales from across the country in second Haunted Canada stamp issue], Canada Post news release, September 14, 2015</ref> |
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*'''2022''': ''Les Filles du QUOI?'', play by Abby Paige <ref>{{cite web | url=https://abbypaige.com/2022/04/06/les-filles-du-quoi-world-premiere/?fbclid=IwAR3XRPBLKPzakWYVUCw_4zGTlb8TOidi3_sEXp8PsWk9yZ5vwMrYXbZK4c0 | title=Les filles du QUOI? World Premiere | date=6 April 2022 }}</ref> |
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* {{cite book | language = fr | first1 =Philippe | last1 =Aubert de Gaspé | author-link1 =Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé | title =Les Anciens Canadiens | url = https://archive.org/details/cihm_28743 | publisher =Desbarats et Derbishire | place =Québec | year =1863 | oclc =77173288 | pages = totales =411 | isbn = 0-665-28743-7 }} |
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* {{citation | language = fr | first1 =Victor-Lévy | last1 =Beaulieu | author-link1 =Victor-Lévy Beaulieu | title = Ma Corriveau, suivi de La sorcellerie en finale sexuée | publisher =VLB | place =Montreal | year = 1976 | pages=117 }} |
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* {{cite book | language = fr | first1 = Louis-Philippe | last1 = Bonneau | title=Josephte Corriveau-Dodier, la Corriveau, 1733-1763: une énigme non résolue | publisher =Société de conservation du patrimoine de Saint-François-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud | place =Saint-François-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud (Quebec) | year =1988 | oclc=22506977 | pages = totales =231 |series = 15}} |
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* {{cite encyclopedia | language=en | url = http://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/la-corriveau/ | title= La Corriveau | last = Dickinson |first= John | date = 2001–2013 | encyclopedia =The Canadian Encyclopedia [en ligne]| publisher = Fondation Historica }}. Brief article published in the online version of ''[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]]'' |
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* {{cite journal |language= |
* {{cite journal |language=fr |first1=Louis-Honoré |last1=Fréchette |author-link1=Louis-Honoré Fréchette |title=La cage de la Corriveau |journal=La Patrie |issue=Special edition |date=24 February 1885 |publisher=Société historique du Marigot |place=Longueuil |pages=10–20 |isbn=2-920313-01-0 |url=http://marigot.ca/SHM_cahiers/SHM_la_patrie.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613180853/http://marigot.ca/SHM_cahiers/SHM_la_patrie.pdf |archive-date=13 June 2011 }} |
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* {{cite journal | language = |
* {{cite journal | language = fr | first1 = Louis-Honoré | last1 = Fréchette | author-link1 = Louis-Honoré Fréchette | title = Une relique - La Corriveau | journal = Almanach du Peuple Beauchemin | publisher = Beauchemin | place = Montréal | year = 1913 | pages = 302–307 | url = http://www.cssh.qc.ca/coll/genealogie-sylvestre/Corriveau.htm | access-date = 2010-07-22 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150610221744/http://www.cssh.qc.ca/coll/genealogie-sylvestre/Corriveau.htm | archive-date = 2015-06-10 | url-status = dead }} |
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* {{cite book | language = |
* {{cite book | language =fr | first1 =Nicole | last1 =Guilbault | title =Il était cent fois La Corriveau - Terre américaine | publisher =Nuit blanche | place =Quebec | year =1995 | oclc =35874386 | pages =[https://archive.org/details/iletaitcentfoisl0000unse/page/ totales =192] | isbn =9782921053426 | url-access =registration | url =https://archive.org/details/iletaitcentfoisl0000unse/page/ }} Anthology containing fifteen oral versions of the legend of la Corriveau, different literary texts inspired by the theme, and four studies. |
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* {{cite book |author= Douglas Hay | |
* {{cite book |author= Douglas Hay |title= Canadian State Trials, Vol. I: Law, Politics, and Security Measures, 1608-1837 |publisher= University of Toronto Press / The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History |place= Toronto |year= 1996 |oclc= 225313361 |pages= 114–128; 621–623 |url= http://www.osgoodesociety.ca/books/book-19962.html |chapter= Civilians Tried in Military Courts: Quebec, 1759-64 |editor1= Frank Murray Greenwood |editor2= Barry Wright |isbn= 9780802078933 |access-date= 2010-07-22 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20101203223414/http://www.osgoodesociety.ca/books/book-19962.html |archive-date= 2010-12-03 |url-status= dead }} |
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* {{cite book | first1 =William | last1 =Kirby | |
* {{cite book | first1 =William | last1 =Kirby | author-link1 =William Kirby (author) | title = The Chien d'Or / The Golden Dog - A Legend of Quebec | publisher =Lovell, Adam, Wesson & Company | place =New York and Montreal | year =1877 | isbn =0-665-07186-8 }} |
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* {{cite book | language = |
* {{cite book | language = fr | first1 = William | last1 = Kirby | author-link1 = William Kirby (author) | first2=Pamphile (tr.) |last2=Le May|author-link2 = Pamphile Le May | title = Le Chien d'or - Légende canadienne | series = Feuilleton de L'Étendard | place = Montreal | year = 1884 | ref={{harvid|Kirby|1884}} | isbn = 0-665-07987-7 }} |
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* {{cite journal | language = fr | first1 = Luc | last1 = Lacourcière | author-link1 = Luc Lacourcière | title = Le triple destin de Marie-Josephte Corriveau | journal = Les Cahiers des Dix | issue = 33 | year = 1968 | pages = 213–242 | issn = 0575-089X | url = http://www.ourroots.ca/f/page.aspx?id=3649001 | publisher = Société des Dix | doi = 10.7202/1079669ar | s2cid = 243472944 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080921134004/http://www.ourroots.ca/f/page.aspx?id=3649001 | archive-date = 2008-09-21 | doi-access = free }} Reprinted in {{Harvnb | Guilbault | 1995 | pp=147–172}} |
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* {{cite journal | language = |
* {{cite journal | language = fr | first1 = Luc | last1 = Lacourcière | author-link1 = Luc Lacourcière | title = Le destin posthume de la Corriveau | journal = Les Cahiers des Dix | issue = 34 | year = 1969 | pages = 239–271 | issn = 0575-089X | url = http://www.ourroots.ca/f/page.aspx?id=3701988 | publisher = Société des Dix | doi = 10.7202/1079658ar | s2cid = 243471924 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070929083202/http://www.ourroots.ca/f/page.aspx?id=3701988 | archive-date = 2007-09-29 | doi-access = free }} |
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* {{cite journal | language = |
* {{cite journal | language = fr | first1 = Luc | last1 = Lacourcière | author-link1 = Luc Lacourcière | title = Présence de la Corriveau | journal = Les Cahiers des Dix | issue = 38 | year = 1973 | pages = 229–264 | issn = 0575-089X | url = http://www.ourroots.ca/f/page.aspx?id=3650181 | publisher = Société des Dix | doi = 10.7202/1025313ar | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080921134019/http://www.ourroots.ca/f/page.aspx?id=3650181 | archive-date = 2008-09-21 | doi-access = free }} |
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* {{cite DCB | first= Luc |last=Lacourcière | |
* {{cite DCB | first= Luc |last=Lacourcière | author-link = Luc Lacourcière | url = http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/corriveau_marie_josephte_3E.html | title=Corriveau, Marie-Josephte, La Corriveau| volume= 3}} Encyclopaedia article |
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* {{cite journal | first1 = James | last1 = MacPherson Le Moine | |
* {{cite journal | first1 = James | last1 = MacPherson Le Moine | author-link1 = James MacPherson Le Moine | title = Marie-Josephte Corriveau, A Canadian Lafarge | journal = Maple Leaves: A Budget of Legendary, Historical, Critical, and Sporting Intelligence | publisher = Printed, for the author, by Hunter, Rose & Co | place = Québec | series =1–7 | year =1863 | pages =68–74 }} |
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* {{cite book |first1= Frank Murray |last1= Greenwood |first2= Beverley |last2= Boissery |title= Uncertain Justice, Canadian Women and Capital Punishment 1754 - 1953 |publisher= Dundurn Press / The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History |place= Toronto |year= 2000 |oclc= 44751697 |url= https://archive.org/details/uncertainjustice0000gree/page/ |pages= [https://archive.org/details/uncertainjustice0000gree/page/ totales= 258] |isbn= 9781550023442 }} |
* {{cite book |first1= Frank Murray |last1= Greenwood |first2= Beverley |last2= Boissery |title= Uncertain Justice, Canadian Women and Capital Punishment 1754 - 1953 |publisher= Dundurn Press / The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History |place= Toronto |year= 2000 |oclc= 44751697 |url= https://archive.org/details/uncertainjustice0000gree/page/ |pages= [https://archive.org/details/uncertainjustice0000gree/page/ totales= 258] |isbn= 9781550023442 }} |
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* {{cite book|language= |
* {{cite book|language=fr |first= Lori |last=Saint-Martin |chapter= Figures de la sorcière dans l'écriture des femmes au Québec |author-link=Lori Saint-Martin |title= Contre-voix: Essais de critique au féminin |publisher=Nuit Blanche | series= Essais critiques |
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|place= Quebec |year= 1997 | oclc = 38430897 |pages=165–189 |
|place= Quebec |year= 1997 | oclc = 38430897 |pages=165–189 |isbn= 9782921053778}} |
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== Further reading == |
== Further reading == |
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* {{cite journal |language = fr | first1 = Sylvie | last1 = Dion | title = La légendification du fait divers: le cas de Marie-Josephte Corriveau, la pendue encagée | journal=Canadart | volume =XI | year = 2003 | pages =11–24 | issn =0104-6268}} |
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* Dion, Sylvie (in Portuguese), ''Fantasmas femininos e imaginários coletivos-os casos de Marie-Josephte Corriveau e Maria Degolada'', in {{cite book|last=Bernd (dir.)|title=Imaginários coletivos e mobilidades (trans)culturals|publisher=Nova Prova|place=[[Porto Alegre]]|year=2008|pages=145–160}}. |
* Dion, Sylvie (in Portuguese), ''Fantasmas femininos e imaginários coletivos-os casos de Marie-Josephte Corriveau e Maria Degolada'', in {{cite book|last=Bernd (dir.)|title=Imaginários coletivos e mobilidades (trans)culturals|publisher=Nova Prova|place=[[Porto Alegre]]|year=2008|pages=145–160}}. |
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* {{cite book|language=pt|first=Mauren Pavão|last=Przybylski|title=A representação feminina nos lendários gaúcho e quebequense: os casos de Teiniaguá e Corriveau'', examination thesis''|publisher=[[Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina]] - Centre de Communication et d'Expression|place=[[Florianópolis]], [[Brazil]]|year=2008|url=http://aspro01.npd.ufsc.br/biblioteca/asp/pbasbi2.asp?codAcervo=263947}}{{Dead link|date=November 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} |
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== External links == |
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'''Archive documents''' |
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* [http://pistard.banq.qc.ca/unite_chercheurs/description_fonds?p_anqsid=200702122255012358&p_classe=P&p_fonds=1000&p_centre=03Q&p_numunide=2120 Documents concernant la Corriveau], [[Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec]], Centre d'archives de Québec, Collection Centre d'archives de Québec, P1000,S3,D435. 128-page collection of research notes on la Corriveau (p. 1), typed transcription of the article by James MacPherson Le Moine, ''Marie-Josephte Corriveau, A Canadian Lafarge'', from 1863 (pp. 2–11), a newspaper clipping entitled ''Le procès de la Corriveau'', dated 28 February 1939 (p. 12) and a copy of the proceedings of the Corriveau case (typist's copy and photostat of the manuscript) (pp. 13–128) of the originals preserved by the [[Imperial War Museum]] in London. |
* [http://pistard.banq.qc.ca/unite_chercheurs/description_fonds?p_anqsid=200702122255012358&p_classe=P&p_fonds=1000&p_centre=03Q&p_numunide=2120 Documents concernant la Corriveau], [[Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec]], Centre d'archives de Québec, Collection Centre d'archives de Québec, P1000,S3,D435. 128-page collection of research notes on la Corriveau (p. 1), typed transcription of the article by James MacPherson Le Moine, ''Marie-Josephte Corriveau, A Canadian Lafarge'', from 1863 (pp. 2–11), a newspaper clipping entitled ''Le procès de la Corriveau'', dated 28 February 1939 (p. 12) and a copy of the proceedings of the Corriveau case (typist's copy and photostat of the manuscript) (pp. 13–128) of the originals preserved by the [[Imperial War Museum]] in London. |
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'''Oral tradition''' |
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* Angélina Roy, [https://web.archive.org/web/20080921233530/http://membres.lycos.fr/beholder/Legende/LegendeRecitDeLaCorriveau.html ''La Corriveau''], 1953. Story about the legend of la Corriveau, recounted 15 November 1953 by Madame Wilfrid Fradette, née Angélina Roy (1875–1958), of [[Saint-Raphaël, Quebec|Saint-Raphaël de Bellechasse]], to [[Luc Lacourcière]]. Archives de Folklore de l'Université Laval, Collection Luc Lacourcière, enreg. 1658, published in {{harvnb|Lacourcière|1973|pp=259–263}} |
* Angélina Roy, [https://web.archive.org/web/20080921233530/http://membres.lycos.fr/beholder/Legende/LegendeRecitDeLaCorriveau.html ''La Corriveau''], 1953. Story about the legend of la Corriveau, recounted 15 November 1953 by Madame Wilfrid Fradette, née Angélina Roy (1875–1958), of [[Saint-Raphaël, Quebec|Saint-Raphaël de Bellechasse]], to [[Luc Lacourcière]]. Archives de Folklore de l'Université Laval, Collection Luc Lacourcière, enreg. 1658, published in {{harvnb|Lacourcière|1973|pp=259–263}} |
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* Gema Leblanc, [ |
* Gema Leblanc, [https://www.angelfire.com/nm/LaSombreForet/lacorriveau.html ''La Corriveau''], 1989. Story about the legend of la Corriveau, recounted in 1989 by Gema Leblanc, inhabitant of Quebec, to Isabelle-Sophie Dufour. Published in Nicole Guilbault (ed.), ''Contes et sortilèges des quatre coins du Québec'', Documentor/Cégep François-Xavier-Garneau, Quebec, 1991. |
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* José Bourassa, [ |
* José Bourassa, [https://www.angelfire.com/nm/LaSombreForet/lacorriveau2.html ''La Corriveau''], 1989. Story about the legend of la Corriveau, recoiunted in 1989 by José Bourassa, inhabitant of [[Charny, Quebec]], born in [[Drummondville]], to Dany Parizé. Published in Nicole Guilbault (ed.), ''Contes et sortilèges des quatre coins du Québec'', Documentor/Cégep François-Xavier-Garneau, Quebec, 1991. |
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'''Song''' |
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* Mes Aïeux, [http://mesaieux.qc.ca/racine/Menu/m1/m0/corrida.txt ''La Corrida de la Corriveau''] |
* Mes Aïeux, [https://web.archive.org/web/20080801135104/http://mesaieux.qc.ca/racine/Menu/m1/m0/corrida.txt ''La Corrida de la Corriveau''] (lyrics) |
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* Gilles Vigneault, [https://web.archive.org/web/20080229181026/http://membres.lycos.fr/poetesse/souvreine/pauline/la_corriveau.txt ''La Corriveau''] (lyrics) |
* Gilles Vigneault, [https://web.archive.org/web/20080229181026/http://membres.lycos.fr/poetesse/souvreine/pauline/la_corriveau.txt ''La Corriveau''] (lyrics) |
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'''Sculpture''' |
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110723042243/http://www.ccbn-nbc.gc.ca/ccbn_img/photos/6a.jpg ''La Corriveau''], bronze sculpture by [[Alfred Laliberté]] made between 1928 and 1932, now in the [[Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec]] |
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110723042243/http://www.ccbn-nbc.gc.ca/ccbn_img/photos/6a.jpg ''La Corriveau''], bronze sculpture by [[Alfred Laliberté]] made between 1928 and 1932, now in the [[Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec]] |
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'''Popular culture''' |
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* [http://www.civilization.ca/tresors/treasure/103fra.html Nineteenth-century tobacco rolling machine], in the figure of la Corriveau in the cage |
* [http://www.civilization.ca/tresors/treasure/103fra.html Nineteenth-century tobacco rolling machine], in the figure of la Corriveau in the cage |
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* Corriveau is featured on [https://www.canadapost.ca/web/en/blogs/announcements/details.page?article=2015/09/14/ghostly_tales_from_a&cattype=announcements&cat=newsreleases a postage stamp from Canada Post] in 2015 |
* Corriveau is featured on [https://www.canadapost.ca/web/en/blogs/announcements/details.page?article=2015/09/14/ghostly_tales_from_a&cattype=announcements&cat=newsreleases a postage stamp from Canada Post] in 2015 |
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'''Animated film''' |
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* ''La Corriveau'', animated film by Kyle Craig – [https://archive.org/details/La_Corriveau_Extended original version] (23 min.) and [https://archive.org/details/La_Corriveau abridged version] (12 min.) |
* ''La Corriveau'', animated film by Kyle Craig – [https://archive.org/details/La_Corriveau_Extended original version] (23 min.) and [https://archive.org/details/La_Corriveau abridged version] (12 min.) |
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'''Commercial use''' |
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* [http://www.lebilboquet.qc.ca/microbraserie.php La Corriveau], dark oatmeal ale from the Quebec microbrewery Le Bilboquet |
* [http://www.lebilboquet.qc.ca/microbraserie.php La Corriveau], dark oatmeal ale from the Quebec microbrewery Le Bilboquet |
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Marie-Josephte Corriveau | |
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Born | January or February 1733[Note 1] Saint-Vallier, New France |
Died | |
Resting place | Saint-Joseph-de-la-Pointe-De Lévy, Lévis |
Nationality | New France |
Other names | La Corriveau |
Known for | Murder |
Marie-Josephte Corriveau (1733 at Saint-Vallier, Quebec – April 18, 1763 at Quebec City), better known as "la Corriveau", is a well-known figure in Québécois folklore. She lived in New France, and was sentenced to death by a British court martial for the murder of her second husband, was hanged for it and her body hanged in chains. Her story has become a legend in Quebec, and she is the subject of many books and plays.
Early life
[edit]Marie-Josephte Corriveau was born in 1733, most probably in January or February,[1][Note 1] and baptised on May 14, 1733, in the rural parish of Saint-Vallier in New France. She was the only surviving offspring of Joseph Corriveau, a farmer, and Marie-Françoise Bolduc. Her ten brothers and sisters all died in childhood.[2]
Marriages and deaths of spouses
[edit]Corriveau married at the age of 16, on November 17, 1749, to Charles Bouchard, aged 23, also a farmer. Three children were born in this marriage: two daughters, Marie-Françoise (1752) and Marie-Angélique (1754), followed by a son, Charles (1757). Rumors (that only started after the death of her second husband) say that she murdered him, as there is no concrete record of his death – he was said to have died of "putrid fevers".[3] Charles Bouchard was buried on April 27, 1760, and she remarried fifteen months later, on July 20, 1761, to another farmer from Saint-Vallier, Louis Étienne Dodier. On the morning of January 27, 1763, he was found dead in his barn, with multiple head wounds. Despite an official recording of the cause of death being from kicks of horses' hooves, and a speedy burial, rumours and gossip of murder spread rapidly through the neighbourhood.[4][5] Dodier was on bad terms with his father-in-law and with his wife.[6]
Arrest and trial
[edit]At the time, New France had been conquered by the British in 1760 as part of the Seven Years' War and was under the administration of the British Army. On hearing the rumours, the local British military authorities (charged with keeping order) set up an inquiry into Dodier's death. The inquiry opened in Quebec City on March 29, 1763, at the Ursulines of Quebec, charging Joseph Corriveau and his daughter Marie-Josephte, before a military tribunal made up of 12 English officers and presided over by Lieutenant Colonel Roger Morris. Many persons in the community had testified, including Joseph's niece and Marie-Josephte's cousin, a young woman approximately the same age as Marie-Josephte named Isabelle Sylvain. The case ended, on April 9, with Joseph Corriveau being sentenced to death, for culpable homicide of his son-in-law. Marie-Josephte was found to be an accomplice to murder, and sentenced to 60 lashes and branded with the letter M on her hand. One of Joseph Corriveau's nieces, Isabelle Sylvain (who he employed as a servant), had testified but changed her story several times during the hearing; she was found guilty of perjury and given 30 lashes and branded with the letter P.
Condemned to hang, Joseph Corriveau then told his confessor, that he was no more than an accomplice to his daughter, after she had killed Dodier. At a second trial, on April 15, Marie-Josephte testified to having killed her husband with two blows of a hatchet during his sleep, because of his ill-treatment of her.[7] The tribunal found her guilty and sentenced her to hang, her body after to be "hanged in chains" (that is, put up for public display on a gibbet).
Execution
[edit]The place of execution was Quebec, on the Buttes-à-Nepveu, near the Plains of Abraham, probably on April 18.[8][9] Her body was then taken, as directed by the sentence, to be put in chains at Pointe-Lévy, at the crossroads of Lauzon and Bienville [10][11] ( Rue Saint-Joseph and Rue de l'Entente).[Note 2] The body, in its iron gibbet, was exposed to the public view until May 25 at the earliest. Following the requests of those living nearby, an order from the military commander of the district of Quebec, James Murray, addressed to the captain of the militia of Pointe-Lévy, permitted its being taken down and buried.[11]
In 1851, the "cage" was dug up from the cemetery of the church of Saint-Joseph-de-la-Pointe-Lévy when a pit was dug.[Note 3] Soon after, the cage was stolen from the church cellar, and acquired by the American impresario P. T. Barnum and put on display as a "macabre object".[12] After that, it was put on display at The Boston Museum. The museum slip indicated its provenance with two words: "From Quebec".[12]
Through the efforts of the Société d'histoire de Lévis, the cage was acquired from the Boston Museum and is now part of a permanent display at Musée de la civilisation in Quebec City.[13]
In legend
[edit]The post-mortem exhibition of Corriveau's remains at a busy crossroads (a practice also in use under the French regime, and reserved in England for those found guilty of the most serious crimes);[14][better source needed][Note 4] the repercussions in the trial; the rumour that her father would be convicted of murdering Dodier at his daughter's instigation; and the gossip which grew up around the circumstances of the death of her first husband all stirred up the popular imagination and became legends still told today in the oral tradition — increasing the number of murdered husbands to as many as seven and likening la Corriveau to a witch.
The 1851 discovery of the iron cage buried in the cemetery of Saint-Joseph Parish (now the Lauzon district) served to reawaken the legends and the fantastic stories, which were amplified and used by 19th-century writers. The first, in 1863, Philippe Aubert de Gaspé in Les Anciens Canadiens, has a supernatural Corriveau hanging in the Pointe-Levy cage that terrorizes one night a passer-by conducting a Witches' Sabbath and a will-o'-the-wisp at the Île d'Orléans.[15] James MacPherson Le Moine (Maple Leaves, 1863)[16] and William Kirby, following in his footsteps (The Golden Dog, 1877[17]), made her a professional poisoner, a direct descendant of La Voisin, famous for her purported role in the Affair of the Poisons. Writers and historians such as Louis Fréchette and Pierre-Georges Roy have tried to give Corriveau's history, but without completely separating the facts from the anachronistic fantasies added in legend and novels.[18]
The figure of Corriveau still inspires novels, songs and plays and is the subject of arguments concerning guilt. Oral tradition also perpetuated and has not stopped and remains alive, as is evidenced by the numerous stories collected in the lands of many regions of Quebec.[19][Note 5]
In popular culture
[edit]- 1863: Les Anciens Canadiens (The Canadians of Old), novel by Philippe Aubert de Gaspé
- 1863: Marie-Josephte Corriveau, A Canadian Lafarge, in Maple Leaves by James MacPherson Le Moine
- 1877: The Golden Dog, A Legend of Québec, novel by William Kirby, translated into French by Léon-Pamphile Le May , Le Chien d'Or, légende canadienne (1884)[20]
- 1885: La Cage de la Corriveau, novel by Louis Fréchette, first published in a special edition of the newspaper La Patrie, 24 February 1885;[21] reprinted and rewritten many times, notably under the title Une Relique in the Almanach du peuple de la librairie Beauchemin, Montreal, 1913.
- 1966: La Corriveau, dramatic ballet choreographed by Brydon Paige, with original theme and songs by Gilles Vigneault and music by Alexander Brott. Commissioned by the Commission du Centenaire de la Confédération, the ballet was premièred by Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, with the collaboration of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra at the Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier of the Place des Arts at Montréal, 21 and 22 December 1966.[22]
- 1972: La Corriveau, song written by Gilles Vigneault in 1966 for the ballet of the same name, is recorded by Pauline Julien on her album Au milieu de ma vie, peut-être la veille de...
- 1973: Ma Corriveau, play by Victor-Lévy Beaulieu written for the public examinations of the students of the National Theatre School of Canada, premièred at the Monument-National, its Montreal base, from 3 to 6 October 1973 with a production by Michelle Rossignol, first premièred professionally at the Théâtre d'Aujourd'hui in Montreal from 19 September to 30 October 1976 in a production by André Pagé.[23]
- 1978: Le Coffret de la Corriveau, fantasy story by André Carpentier ,[24] translated into English in 1982.[25]
- 1981: La Corriveau, historical novel by Andrée LeBel[26]
- 1990: La Cage, play by Anne Hébert,[27] translated into English in 2009.[28]
- 1993: La Corriveau, short story by the English Canadian Douglas Glover,[29] translated into French the same year,[30] and into Serbian in 1995.[31]
- 1993: La Corriveau, play by Guy Cloutier, produced by Denise Verville and staged at the Théâtre Périscope , Quebec, from 12 to 30 January 1993. It was reprised, adapted for television with the title La Corrivaux by the director Jean Salvy, with Anne Dorval in the title role, and broadcast on the Télévision Radio-Canada network in 1995.
- 1999: La Maudite, teen novel by Daniel Mativat[32]
- 2001: La Corrida de la Corriveau, song by Mes Aïeux (on the album Entre les branches )
- 2003: La Fiancée du vent: l'histoire de la Corriveau, née en Nouvelle-France et pendue sous le Régime anglais, novel by Monique Pariseau[33]
- 2003: Julie et le serment de la Corriveau, teen novel by Martine Latulippe[34]
- 2003: Her story and the alleged paranormal aspects of it were featured in Episode 1 of Season 2 of the Canadian paranormal documentary series Creepy Canada, which carried out and showed a reenactment of her story and its allegedly paranormal aspects.
- 2004: Battle of the Brave (Nouvelle-France), film produced by Jean Beaudin (loose adaptation on the theme of la Corriveau)[35]
- 2006: La Corriveau, animated film by Kyle Craig
- 2015: Corriveau is featured on a postage stamp from Canada Post[36]
- 2022: Les Filles du QUOI?, play by Abby Paige [37]
Sources
[edit]- Aubert de Gaspé, Philippe (1863). Les Anciens Canadiens (in French). Québec: Desbarats et Derbishire. pp. totales =411. ISBN 0-665-28743-7. OCLC 77173288.
- Beaulieu, Victor-Lévy (1976), Ma Corriveau, suivi de La sorcellerie en finale sexuée (in French), Montreal: VLB, p. 117
- Bonneau, Louis-Philippe (1988). Josephte Corriveau-Dodier, la Corriveau, 1733-1763: une énigme non résolue. 15 (in French). Saint-François-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud (Quebec): Société de conservation du patrimoine de Saint-François-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud. pp. totales =231. OCLC 22506977.
- Dickinson, John (2001–2013). "La Corriveau". The Canadian Encyclopedia [en ligne]. Fondation Historica.. Brief article published in the online version of The Canadian Encyclopedia
- Fréchette, Louis-Honoré (24 February 1885). "La cage de la Corriveau" (PDF). La Patrie (in French) (Special edition). Longueuil: Société historique du Marigot: 10–20. ISBN 2-920313-01-0. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 June 2011.
- Fréchette, Louis-Honoré (1913). "Une relique - La Corriveau". Almanach du Peuple Beauchemin (in French). Montréal: Beauchemin: 302–307. Archived from the original on 2015-06-10. Retrieved 2010-07-22.
- Guilbault, Nicole (1995). Il était cent fois La Corriveau - Terre américaine (in French). Quebec: Nuit blanche. pp. totales =192. ISBN 9782921053426. OCLC 35874386. Anthology containing fifteen oral versions of the legend of la Corriveau, different literary texts inspired by the theme, and four studies.
- Douglas Hay (1996). "Civilians Tried in Military Courts: Quebec, 1759-64". In Frank Murray Greenwood; Barry Wright (eds.). Canadian State Trials, Vol. I: Law, Politics, and Security Measures, 1608-1837. Toronto: University of Toronto Press / The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History. pp. 114–128, 621–623. ISBN 9780802078933. OCLC 225313361. Archived from the original on 2010-12-03. Retrieved 2010-07-22.
- Kirby, William (1877). The Chien d'Or / The Golden Dog - A Legend of Quebec. New York and Montreal: Lovell, Adam, Wesson & Company. ISBN 0-665-07186-8.
- Kirby, William; Le May, Pamphile (tr.) (1884). Le Chien d'or - Légende canadienne. Feuilleton de L'Étendard (in French). Montreal. ISBN 0-665-07987-7.
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- Lacourcière, Luc (1969). "Le destin posthume de la Corriveau". Les Cahiers des Dix (in French) (34). Société des Dix: 239–271. doi:10.7202/1079658ar. ISSN 0575-089X. S2CID 243471924. Archived from the original on 2007-09-29.
- Lacourcière, Luc (1973). "Présence de la Corriveau". Les Cahiers des Dix (in French) (38). Société des Dix: 229–264. doi:10.7202/1025313ar. ISSN 0575-089X. Archived from the original on 2008-09-21.
- Lacourcière, Luc (1974). "Corriveau, Marie-Josephte, La Corriveau". In Halpenny, Francess G (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. III (1741–1770) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press. Encyclopaedia article
- MacPherson Le Moine, James (1863). "Marie-Josephte Corriveau, A Canadian Lafarge". Maple Leaves: A Budget of Legendary, Historical, Critical, and Sporting Intelligence. 1–7. Québec: Printed, for the author, by Hunter, Rose & Co: 68–74.
- Greenwood, Frank Murray; Boissery, Beverley (2000). Uncertain Justice, Canadian Women and Capital Punishment 1754 - 1953. Toronto: Dundurn Press / The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History. pp. totales= 258. ISBN 9781550023442. OCLC 44751697.
- Saint-Martin, Lori (1997). "Figures de la sorcière dans l'écriture des femmes au Québec". Contre-voix: Essais de critique au féminin. Essais critiques (in French). Quebec: Nuit Blanche. pp. 165–189. ISBN 9782921053778. OCLC 38430897.
Notes
[edit]- ^ a b The record of the act of baptism, of May 14, 1733, indicates that she was about three months old.
- ^ These were all near an ancient religious site between the Saint-Joseph and Vaudreuil roads. There was a religious monument called the Monument de la Tempérance which remained in the middle of the nineteenth century, until 1885.
- ^ Some renown attached to the bones recovered in this dig. The writer Louis Fréchette wrote about this discovery at the age of ten.
- ^ See Gibbet.
- ^ Notably the 52 stories collected between 1952 and 1973 under the direction of Luc Lacourcière (Lacourcière 1973, pp. 252–253 "Nos Racines / Our Roots". Archived from the original on 2011-06-14. Retrieved 2010-07-22. and the 122 put together between 1975 and 1990 by the students of Nicole Guilbault (Guilbault 1995, p. 14).
References
[edit]- ^ Gélinas, Marion. "A Shrine for Marie-Josephte Corriveau and for all women who are victims of domestic violence". University of British Columbia. p. 14. Retrieved 17 September 2024.
- ^ Bonneau 1988, p. 44.
- ^ Pelchat, André (December 2018). "Macabre Discovery". Canada's History. Vol. 98, no. 6. ISSN 1920-9894.
- ^ McBride, Jessica (2011). "From Vilified to Victorious: Reconceiving La Corriveau in Anne Hébert's La Cage". Studies in Canadian Literature. 36 (2). University of New Brunswick: 130.
- ^ Tarlow, Sarah; Battell Lowman, Emma (2018). "Hanging in Chains". Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-319-77907-2.
- ^ Grundhauser, Eric (November 2, 2017). "The Hanging Cage That Held an Infamous Québec Murderess". Atlas Obscura. Retrieved September 17, 2024.
- ^ Lacourcière 1968, pp. 230–231 "Nos Racines / Our Roots". Archived from the original on 2011-06-14. Retrieved 2010-07-22. (in French)
- ^ Lacourcière 1968, p. 234 "Nos Racines / Our Roots". Archived from the original on 2011-06-14. Retrieved 2010-07-22. (in French)
- ^ Lacourcière, Luc (1974). "CORRIVEAU (Corrivaux), MARIE-JOSEPHTE, known as La Corriveau". Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. 3. University of Toronto/Université Laval. Retrieved September 17, 2024.
- ^ 46°49′15.5″N 71°10′21.8″W / 46.820972°N 71.172722°W
- ^ a b Lacourcière 1968, p. 239 "Nos Racines / Our Roots". Archived from the original on 2011-06-14. Retrieved 2010-07-22.
- ^ a b Fréchette, Louis (1913), "Une Relique – La Corriveau", Almanach du Peuple (in French), pp. 302–307, archived from the original on 2015-06-10, retrieved 2010-07-22
- ^ "LA CAGE DE LA CORRIVEAU ENTRE DANS LA COLLECTION NATIONALE DES MUSÉES DE LA CIVILISATION À QUÉBEC: Communiqués de presse: Musée de la civilisation - Québec: MCQ.org". www.mcq.org.
- ^ fr:Peine de mort en France#Ancien R.C3.A9gime
- ^ Aubert de Gaspé 1863, Chapter 4.
- ^ MacPherson Le Moine 1863.
- ^ Kirby 1877.
- ^ Lacourcière 1974
- ^ Dickinson, John A. (January 21, 2007). "La Corriveau". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved September 17, 2024.
- ^ Kirby 1884.
- ^ Fréchette 1885.
- ^ Lacourcière 1973, p. 247.
- ^ Beaulieu 1976, p. 8.
- ^ Carpentier, André (1978). "Le Coffret de la Corriveau". Rue Saint-Denis: Contes Fantastiques (in French). Montreal: Hurtubise HMH: 75–92. ISBN 0-7758-0165-8., reissued by André Carpentier in 1988 (Quebec Library, Montreal), translated into English in 2000 and Italian in 2004 (Worldcat).
- ^ Carpentier, André (Winter 1982). "The Chest of Madame Corriveau". Matrix. 17: 41–48..
- ^ LeBel, Andrée (1981). La Corriveau (in French). Montreal: Libre Expression. ISBN 9782891110563.
- ^ Hébert, Anne (1990). La Cage, suivi de L'Île de la Demoiselle (in French). Montreal/Paris: Boréal Express / Seuil. ISBN 9782890523203.
- ^ Hébert, Anne (2009). Two Plays: The Cage and L'Île de la Demoiselle. Translated by Reid, Gregory J.; Grant, Pamela; Fischman, Sheila. Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press. ISBN 978-0-88754-855-0.
- ^ Glover, Douglas (1993). "La Corriveau". Descant. 24 (4). Toronto. ISSN 0382-909X.
- ^ Glover, Douglas (1993). "La Corriveau". Meurtres à Québec (in French). Quebec: L'Instant même: 9–24..
- ^ "Curriculum Vitae of Douglas Glover". Retrieved October 21, 2009.[permanent dead link ].
- ^ Mativat, Daniel (1999). La Maudite. Chacal (in French). Saint-Laurent: Éditions Pierre Tisseyre. ISBN 9782890517233. Archived from the original on 2007-03-22.
- ^ Pariseau, Monique (2003). La Fiancée du vent - l'histoire de la Corriveau, née en Nouvelle-France et pendue sous le Régime anglais (in French). Outremont: Libre Expression. ISBN 9782764800669.
- ^ Latulippe, Martine; Rousseau, May (illustrator) (2003). Julie et le serment de la Corriveau. Bilbo Jeunesse (in French). Montreal: Éditions Québec Amérique. ISBN 978-2-7644-0240-5. Archived from the original on 2010-04-13. Retrieved 2010-07-22.
- ^ Tremblay, Odile (December 4, 2003). "Le curé et la pendue". Le Devoir (in French). Retrieved April 12, 2010.
- ^ Ghostly tales from across the country in second Haunted Canada stamp issue, Canada Post news release, September 14, 2015
- ^ "Les filles du QUOI? World Premiere". 6 April 2022.
Further reading
[edit]- Dion, Sylvie (2003). "La légendification du fait divers: le cas de Marie-Josephte Corriveau, la pendue encagée". Canadart (in French). XI: 11–24. ISSN 0104-6268.
- Dion, Sylvie (in Portuguese), Fantasmas femininos e imaginários coletivos-os casos de Marie-Josephte Corriveau e Maria Degolada, in Bernd (dir.) (2008). Imaginários coletivos e mobilidades (trans)culturals. Porto Alegre: Nova Prova. pp. 145–160..
- Przybylski, Mauren Pavão (2008). A representação feminina nos lendários gaúcho e quebequense: os casos de Teiniaguá e Corriveau, examination thesis (in Portuguese). Florianópolis, Brazil: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - Centre de Communication et d'Expression.[permanent dead link ]
External links
[edit]Latest access date of external links: 17 April 2010 Archive documents
- Documents concernant la Corriveau, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, Centre d'archives de Québec, Collection Centre d'archives de Québec, P1000,S3,D435. 128-page collection of research notes on la Corriveau (p. 1), typed transcription of the article by James MacPherson Le Moine, Marie-Josephte Corriveau, A Canadian Lafarge, from 1863 (pp. 2–11), a newspaper clipping entitled Le procès de la Corriveau, dated 28 February 1939 (p. 12) and a copy of the proceedings of the Corriveau case (typist's copy and photostat of the manuscript) (pp. 13–128) of the originals preserved by the Imperial War Museum in London.
Oral tradition
- Angélina Roy, La Corriveau, 1953. Story about the legend of la Corriveau, recounted 15 November 1953 by Madame Wilfrid Fradette, née Angélina Roy (1875–1958), of Saint-Raphaël de Bellechasse, to Luc Lacourcière. Archives de Folklore de l'Université Laval, Collection Luc Lacourcière, enreg. 1658, published in Lacourcière 1973, pp. 259–263
- Gema Leblanc, La Corriveau, 1989. Story about the legend of la Corriveau, recounted in 1989 by Gema Leblanc, inhabitant of Quebec, to Isabelle-Sophie Dufour. Published in Nicole Guilbault (ed.), Contes et sortilèges des quatre coins du Québec, Documentor/Cégep François-Xavier-Garneau, Quebec, 1991.
- José Bourassa, La Corriveau, 1989. Story about the legend of la Corriveau, recoiunted in 1989 by José Bourassa, inhabitant of Charny, Quebec, born in Drummondville, to Dany Parizé. Published in Nicole Guilbault (ed.), Contes et sortilèges des quatre coins du Québec, Documentor/Cégep François-Xavier-Garneau, Quebec, 1991.
Song
- Mes Aïeux, La Corrida de la Corriveau (lyrics)
- Gilles Vigneault, La Corriveau (lyrics)
Sculpture
- La Corriveau, bronze sculpture by Alfred Laliberté made between 1928 and 1932, now in the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec
Popular culture
- Nineteenth-century tobacco rolling machine, in the figure of la Corriveau in the cage
- Corriveau is featured on a postage stamp from Canada Post in 2015
Animated film
- La Corriveau, animated film by Kyle Craig – original version (23 min.) and abridged version (12 min.)
Commercial use
- La Corriveau, dark oatmeal ale from the Quebec microbrewery Le Bilboquet
- People of New France
- People executed by military occupation forces
- Executed Canadian people
- 1733 births
- 1763 deaths
- Executed Canadian women
- Executed French people
- People executed by the British military by hanging
- People executed for murder
- French people convicted of murder
- Canadian people convicted of murder
- People from Chaudière-Appalaches
- Canadian female murderers
- Canadian legends
- Canadian folklore
- Canadian ghosts
- Mariticides