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Biography of René LévesqueName: René LévesqueBirth Date: August 24, 1922 Death Date: November 1, 1987 Place of Birth: New Carlisle, Quebec, Canada Nationality: Canadian Gender: Male Occupations: premier René Lévesque As premier of the province of Quebec, Canada, from 1976 to 1985, René Lévesque (1922-1987) was the first French-Canadian political leader since confederation to attempt, through a referendum, to negotiate political independence for Quebec.René Lévesque was born in New Carlisle, in the Gaspé region of Quebec, on August 24, 1922, the son of Dominique Lévesque, a lawyer, and of Diane Dionne-Pineault. Upon completing his primary education in New Carlisle, he pursued his classical education at the Jesuit Collège de Gaspé and the Collège Saint-Charles-Garnier in Quebec City. In the fall of 1941 he began studies in law at Laval University, which he did not complete.He pursued a career in radio journalism and acted as a liaison agent and war correspondent for the U. S. armed forces in 1944 and 1945. Between 1946 and 1951 he worked for the French-language section of the International Service …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…Provencher, René Lévesque: Portrait of a Quebecer (1975). On the rise of René Lévesque and the Parti Québéçois there is Pierre Dupont, How Lévesque Won: The Story of the PQ's Stunning Election Victory (1977) and Vera Murray, Le Parti Québéçois: de la fondation à la prise du pouvoir (1976). By far the best treatment of Lévesque is the study by a journalist, Graham Fraser, René Lévesque & the Parti Québéçois in Power (1984). Solid background for understanding the historical context in which Lévesque operated after World War II can be found in Michael D. Behiels, Prelude to Quebec's Quiet Revolution: Liberalism versus Neo-nationalism, 1945-1960 (1985) and Kenneth McRoberts and Dale Posgate, Quebec: Social and Political Crisis (1980).Lévesque, René, Memoirs, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1995. |