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Feb 2022
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Anne... la maison aux pignons verts et L...

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L’autrice Lucy Maud Montgomery, originaire de l'Île-du-Prince-Édouard, avait seulement 9 ans quand elle a commencé à écrire. Elle est aujourd’hui l'une des écrivaines les plus célèbres du Canada. Vous la connaissez peut-être! C’est elle qui a écrit l'histoire d’Anne Shirley, dans la série Anne... la maison aux pignons verts, qui s’est vendu plus de 60 millions d’exemplaires dans le monde!

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