Georges-Henri Lévesque

See also: Lévesque

The Très Reverend Georges-Henri Lévesque (February 16th 1903 - January 15th 2000) was a priest Dominicain and Canadian Sociologue .

Biography

Born with Roberval, the son of George Lévesque and Laura Richard, in a family of fifteen children, it studies with the seminar of Chicoutimi. It is same generation as Paul-Emile Borduas and François Hertel. In 1923, at the twenty years age, it enters in the preaching friars to Saint-Hyacinthe. It chose this order because the Dominican ones acted much on the social plan, and itself was said interested by the company and sociology. It continues its studies with the college of Dominican with Ottawa and with the catholic Université of Lille, then it is ordered priest in 1928. It continues its studies in Théologie until in 1930, and obtains its diploma of higher learning in social sciences in 1933, the equivalent of a doctorate.

He teaches social philosophy with the college of Dominican, then at the universities of Montreal and Laval. It is especially recognized to have founded in 1938 the School of social sciences of the Université Laval, become faculty in 1943. This faculty specializes in the Sociologie, the economic , the Labor relations and the Social service. He works at the sides of Everett-C. Hughes, become the president of American sociological association.

During the war, he writes in the review Ensemble . In 1943, it founds the company for the education of the adults. It also takes part in the board of inquiry on the Canadian government, created by Mackenzie King. He wanted to use his post of senior to promote the Démocratie.

Louis the St. Lawrence names it with the Commission Massey on the Mécénat, where it sits of 1949 with 1951. In 1955, it founds the Montmorency House, which is called today the Manoir Montmorency. Of 1959 with 1961, he is president of the Association Canadian-Frenchwoman for the advance of sciences (ACFAS). He is vice-president of the royal Société of Canada in 1962 and 1963.

Critical social

Lévesque was critical unionistic government of Maurice Duplessis as from 1949, when the Grève of Asbestos was repressed by the provincial police force. It attracted itself the political line lightning, and in fact Duplessis refused to engage the graduates of his faculty because it did not love much the intellectuals. The trade unions and the catholic farmers of the time share best the their ideas with him. The things change with the election of the liberal governments of Jean Lesage and Lester B. Pearson, which directly takes its faculty to improve their high public office. The increased role of the State which resulted from it, and the great influence that Lévesque had on its students does of him one of the important fathers of the Quiet revolution to the Quebec. It regularly met the Three doves with Free Cité (Trudeau, Marchand, Pelletier).

In its writings, it wished a popular school laicized, which was carried out shortly after by Paul Gérin-Lajoie. The catch in hand of the economy by the French Canadians (“Main On our premises”) is largely carried out by its economists and administrators, whose Jacques Parizeau, Michel Bélanger, Albert Faucher and Claude Morin, all Keynésien S. It refused to enter in policy, too partisane according to him, because it knew priest.

Moreover, it inspired work of the historians of the school of Laval, who modified the point of view considerably dominating in Québécois historiography and who gave to the French Canadians a new vision of themselves.

Of 1963 with 1972, he is the vice-chancellor of the National university of Rwanda with Butare. Its African period, it called it its second career . It was saddened with the news of the failures missionaries and genocidary massacres in this country. In Spain, it helped with the creation of the faculty of social sciences of the Université of Salamanque.

During its life, it received 15 doctorates Honoris causa and it published more than fifty scientific works. It published its memories, entitled Souvenances , in 1983. In 1994, it published notebooks of stories of Quebec with the Médiéviste and critical arts person Benoît Lacroix.

It is deceased the January 15th 2000 at the 96 years and eleven months age. The news of its death caused a great flow of homages in the Québécois political community. Its funeral was held with the Saint-Dominique church of Quebec. He is recognized like a sower of ideas.

Honors

  • Medal Edouard-Montpetit

Disciples

Reference

  • Parisé Robert, Georges-Henri Lévesque, father of the Québécois rebirth , Montreal, A. Stanké, 172 p.

  • Georges-Henri-Lévesque Library the Roberval one.

Quotations of itself

  • “freedom also comes from God”.
  • “the university must be at the disposal of not only what is called the elites, but also, of the population, and it is for that, as of the starting point, the foundation of the school of social sciences of the Laval University, I put in the program a whole program of popular education because I very strongly believed that the University, the academics were not to remain in an ivory tower.”

Quotations about it

  • “Georges-Henri Lévesque fought for freedom. He will have sought until the end to break the partitions which lock up the spirit, as well within the Church as in our company”. (Gilles Duceppe)
  • “He was a very large professor. He said to us: “You are young, you have ideals. When you age, go up towards your ideal, never lower it.” I always tried to take this advice.” (Marcel Pip)
  • “Its engagement social will have left an impressive mark on Quebec of today.” (Jean Charest)
  • “During the fifty last years the Dominican father Georges-Henri Lévesque enormously contributed to the cultural life and social of this country.” (Jean Chrétien)

Important works

  • French Canadians on their premises , Montreal, Bookstore of action Canadian-Frenchwoman, 1937,84 Moral p.
  • and technique of the action: compilation of texts of Thomas, Aquin
  • Social service and charity , Books of the Faculty of social sciences of the Laval University. Vol. III, No 2, Quebec, Editions of the " Cape diamant" , 1944,24 p.
  • overlapping of the cultures : S. ED., 1955,14 p.
  • cultural duality in Canada: yesterday, today, tomorrow , Montreal, Editions A. Levesque, 1960,255 p.
  • Souvenances: discussions with Simon Jutras , Montreal, the Press, 1983,373 p.
  • Continuity and rupture: social sciences in Quebec (Conference of the Mount-Gabriel, 1981) texts joined together by Georges-Henri Lévesque… Al, Montreal, Presses of the University of Montreal, 1984,2 vol., 671 p.

See too

  • Medal Georges-Henri-Lévesque

External bonds

  • File of Radio-Canada
  • File of Agora
  • Re-examined Scholar
  • Assessment of the University of Sherbrooke
  • Note of the Canadian encyclopedia
  • Homage of the University Laval
  • Biography of the pontifical university Saint Thomas d' Aquin

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