Although Maurice Constantin-Weyer's life and writing were divided between France and Canada, he is now remembered primarily as a novelist who drew upon Canadian prairie history and his own experiences in western Canada prior to World War I and presented them, greatly transformed, for readers in France. However, just a year before he won the Prix Goncourt, he lamented in the dedication to Cavelier de La Salle (1927; translated as The French Adventurer: The Life and Exploits of LaSalle, 1931) that "le Canada se souvient plus volontiers que la France" (Canada remembers more readily than France). It is true that very few histories of twentieth-century French literature mention him at all, and most of those that do merely acknowledge in passing his winning of the Goncourt prize in 1928. Nevertheless, though the praise was scanty, the literary output was not; the national libraries of France and Canada list some sixty volumes...