The group, which included Faucher de Saint-Maurice and Oscar Dunn, gathered regularly in the home of Prosper Bender in Quebec City, and the salon's conversations helped inspire and mold these literary figures' works.

[3] Joseph Marmette wrote mainly historical novels, covering the period of New France and immediately after the War of the Conquest.

The hero of the novel, Charles Couillard-Dupuis, falls in love with the orphan Eva Frantova and brings her back to Quebec.

The book marks a novelty in the novelistic genre of Quebec literature, placing fictitious action in a real event and compelling an important historiographical research.

The book "Heroism and Treason - Canadian Stories" (1879) contains an addition on the heroic deeds of Madeleine de Verchères against Iroquois.