{"id":5599,"date":"2012-06-21T14:03:55","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T18:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/?p=5599"},"modified":"2012-06-21T14:04:16","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T18:04:16","slug":"a-very-brief-history-of-st-jean-baptiste-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/a-very-brief-history-of-st-jean-baptiste-day\/","title":{"rendered":"A Very Brief History of St-Jean Baptiste Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Excerpt taken from the book\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/en\/the-story-of-french\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-bitly-type=\"bitly_hover_card\"><em>The Story of French<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Ch. 10)<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/2012-06-21-St-Jean-Baptiste-Day.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5601\" title=\"St-Jean Baptiste Day\" src=\"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/2012-06-21-St-Jean-Baptiste-Day.jpg\" alt=\"St-Jean Baptiste Day\" width=\"170\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>To resist assimilation, French Canadians and Acadians developed diverse, sometimes wacky forms <em>of la vie associative, <\/em>from language conferences and cultural associations to secret societies. The first association was created at a banquet held in Montreal on June 24, 1834, St. John the Baptist Day (and because the banquets continued to be organized on that day, John the Baptist went on to become the patron saint of French Canadians), and led to the founding of the Societ\u00e9 St-Jean Baptiste (St. John the Baptist Society), whose central mandate was to defend the rights of French Canadians. Dozens of other associations were formed in French-Canadian communities in Quebec and elsewhere in the decades that followed.<\/p>\n<p>The movement spawned a wide array of symbols, some of which, such as the maple leaf and the beaver, went on to become Canadian emblems. The Societ\u00e9 St-Jean Baptiste even devised the anthem, \u00abO Canada,\u00bb that eventually replaced \u00abGod Save the Queen\u00bb as Canada&#8217;s national anthem in 1980. Their flag\u2013blue with a white cross and four fleurs-de-lys\u2013 became the flag of the province of Quebec in 1944 and the official symbol of all French Canadians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt taken from the book\u00a0The Story of French\u00a0(Ch. 10) To resist assimilation, French Canadians and Acadians developed diverse, sometimes wacky forms of la vie associative, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5599"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5613,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5599\/revisions\/5613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}