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- The Boston Herald
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- July 23, 1997
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Nationalism still dominates our age
QUEBEC - You first see it on license plates approaching Quebec City, then on signs, and finally, spelled out in flower beds - "Je me souviens."
On the grounds of the Citadel, the 19th century fortress the British built to keep Americans out (if you please!), I asked a guide to translate, my high-school French being rusty at best. He smiled, "Je me souviens - I remember."
What a fitting slogan for the Quebecois, nationalists who aspire to nationhood. It's memory that attaches us to a people, a place, a culture - that gives us a national identity.
The Quebecois remember that before there ...