During a brief stopover in Quebec with Edith Lewis in 1927, Cather was inspired to write a novel set in that French-Canadian city. Lewis recalled: "From the first moment that she looked down from the windows of the Frontenac [Hotel on the pointed roofs and Norman outlines of the town of Quebec, Willa Cather was not merely stirred and charmed—she was overwhelmed by the flood of memories, recognition, surmise it called up; by the sense of its extraordinary French character, isolated and kept intact through hundreds of years, as if by a miracle, on this great un-French continent." Cather finished her novel "Shadows on the Rock", a historical novel set in 17th-century Quebec, in 1931; it was later included in "Life" magazine's list of the 100 outstanding books of 1924–1944. The French influence is found in many other Cather works, including "Death Comes for the Archbishop" (1927) and her final, unfinished novel set in Avignon, "Hard Punishments".