The novels published in installments by Éditions Police-Journal enjoyed unprecedented popularity from the 1940s to the turn of the 1960s. The collection Roman sentimental constitutes a privileged vantage point from which to study the development of a new fantasy allowing the working classes to dream about material comfort and even, occasionally, great wealth. Supported by some twenty novels, this article discusses the negotiations between this desire for wealth and the danger of dissolution of French-Canadian identity by examining the figure of the businessman (and, exceptionally, the businesswoman) as a particularly enlightening narrative axis.
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