Quebec, land of mysteries

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It didn't take much for indignant electronic missives to reach me via some submarine cable from Quebecers, outraged that their province was once again neglected by an arrogant Frenchman. While at first, it was appropriate to scowl at these miscreants questioning my legendary modesty, it eventually became apparent that it was perfectly logical to talk about La Belle Province in these places. Indeed, since this blog deals with many absurd subjects, it would have been quite improper not to mention the most legendary of the overseas provinces, too often mocked by philistines with dubious humor. Far from prejudice, let us therefore evoke this majestic place:

Quebec
Quebec, or "  Belle Province ", is the name of a Canadian province - appropriately - famous phone number library for its independence aspirations, its mysterious gastronomy and its questionable singers. A true French-speaking enclave in a hostile land, surrounded by Canadians, Americans and seals (although in some Walmarts on the border, it is not always easy to distinguish the last two species), Quebec is all that remains of the French royalist equivalent of the Mars One program: sending thieves to a distant and hostile land with instructions to stay there, for goodness' sake.

Unlike Belgium, Quebec is a real place, as evidenced by numerous testimonies and exports of comedians. The army, of course, continues to deny this, and often portrays said comedians as weather balloon debris, even though there is a significant difference between the two: the weather balloon has a small chance of making you laugh, even by accident.

Nevertheless, the numerous archives we have available that evoke La Belle Province in one way or another allow us to learn many fascinating things about it.

The Quebec flag: white as snow, blue like those who weren't in their cabins when it started to fall
Geography
Located in the northeast of the North American continent, where nature is wild, the climate harsh and the songs bad (BB Brunes are Québécois at heart, I suppose), Quebec spreads lasciviously over nearly 1,667,441 square kilometers, which is a lot considering that it has just over 8 million inhabitants. For comparison, it's 138 times the size of Île-de-France, but with 3 million fewer inhabitants than the original. Needless to say, Quebecers are in a real pickle when they want to invite their nearest neighbor over for a drink: they have an average drive of 3 hours in one direction and 3 in the other.