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The article explores the interactions and public perceptions of Pierre Loti and Edmond Rostand, focusing on their social engagements, literary contributions, and the reception of their works. It delves into their unique relationship, particularly during their time in the Basque Country, and analyzes the media portrayal of these two iconic figures, highlighting instances of ridicule and infantilization in press coverage.

Although Canadian literature was virtually unknown in the USSR during the Cold War era (1945-1991), although few works by Canadian authors were published in Russian translation in the Soviet Union, and there were no critical reviews of these books before the Perestroika period of the 1980s, the Soviet press at times referred to Canadian authors in order to serve its own objectives or rather the objectives of the ruling Communist Party. This article explores how Canadian literature was received in the USSR during the Cold War, what purposes this reception served, and which projected images of Canada can be found in the reviews of Canadian books and articles on Canadian literature published in the Russian language in magazines and newspapers of the time. The monographs on Canadian literature published in the USSR in Russian are also discussed here, to see, among other reasons, if Soviet critics made a distinction between English-Canadian literature and French-Canadian (or Québécois) literature. Finally, this article sets out to examine not only the representations of Canadian literature and Canadian society as conveyed by the Soviet press but also those put forward by Russian researchers of the period in their scholarly monographs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the circulation of francophone news, information, and literary content between Western Europe and North America in the nineteenth century. During this period, big metropolitan cities (Paris, Brussels, Montreal, New Orleans) were forming a dense media network. For the western Atlantic region, New York City and the Courrier des États-Unis (1828-1938) served as the hub of this network. Francophone readers on both sides of the Atlantic shared a large common corpus, including works such as Eugène Sue's Mystères de Paris (1842-1843), which was distributed in North America by the literary supplement of the Courrier. By providing a general overview of this French-speaking network, this article invites scholars to explore how texts, and literature in particular, operated through an interlinked dynamic system of publication rather than as independent unconnected works. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]