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work of art.

Your Association has a great part to play. You have to
encourage good literature, here in Canada, in the French language,
and you have to make certain that the beauties of that language are
kept inviolate. In a word your task is very much that of the
Academie Française. As an Englishman and a Canadian by adoption and as an old lover of France
and its historic culture, I wish you god-speed.