Cultural program
To the Physician's Health!
Sunday, January 22, at 2 p.m.
Immerse yourself in the world of medicine described by authors and playwrights that have marked history. Actors Jérémie Earp-Lavergne, Marie-Chantal Nadeau and Charles Sylvestre will re-enact excerpts from masterpieces such as La Peste, d'Albert Camus and Médecin malgré lui, by Molière. Each of the dramatized readings will be accompanied by cellist Ludovic Glorieux, who will perform selected excerpts from Bach's Cello Suites.
Surgeons in New France: The trade and its tools
Sunday, February 19, at 2 p.m.
Discover the fascinating and multifaceted aspects of being a surgeon in New France. David Ledoyen will give a talk that brings to light the many-sidedness of this profession by means of the most telling surgical instruments. In New France the surgeon was a general practitioner who performed amputations, trephinations, bloodlettings, very popular at the time, and tooth extractions.
Epidemics in New France
Sunday, March 4, at 2 p.m.
Talk by Michel Barbeau
information
Marie-Hélène Vendette, Education and Communications Coordinator
mhvendette@chateauramezay.qc.ca
Telephone: 514 861-3708 ext. 225 | Fax: 514 861-8317
