Modern Usage
The phrase continues to be referenced in the modern era. Canadian poet Poet Louis-Honoré Fréchette paid himself a revenge on Voltaire in his poem "Sous la statue de Voltaire" ("Under the statue of Voltaire"), published in La Légende d'un Peuple (1887).
Quelques arpents de neige (A few acres of snow) is the title of a 1972 movie by Denis Héroux; "Pour quelques arpents de neige" is a 1972 song by Claude Léveillée, written for the film.
In the 1980s, the marketers of the Quebec edition of the game Trivial Pursuit punningly named their product "Quelques arpents de pièges" (A few acres of traps).
This is also the title of a board game designed by Martin Wallace about the French and British conflict over what is now Canada.
Read more about this topic: A Few Acres Of Snow
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