The most popular genre published by Les Éditions Moderne
Ltée of Montreal from 1944 to 1958 in their imprint Collection
Petit Format (CPF) was romance; French term “roman d’amour”.
Two hundred and fifty-eight (58%) of the 443 titles were romance. This large percentage is not surprising given how popular the roman d’amour was in France with thousands published in the last century.
The CPF titles were all originally published in France. One
popular author was
Magali, pen name of Jeanne Philbert
(1898-1986), who has at least 28 CPF
titles. Her novels
have “heroines [who] win respect through their virtue whilst
being passionately loved and desired by men whom, in their
turn, they find
supremely lovable.” (Romance
and Readership in
Twentieth-Century France by Diana
Holmes, Oxford University
Press, 2006).
CPF 385 - March 1953
CPF 387 - March 1953
CPF 530 - October 1955
CPF 448 - Februry 1954
CPF 327 - October 1952
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