Great Blackness
The Grande Blackness is the name used by certain historians to indicate the period of the history of the Quebec of 1944 with 1959 during which Maurice Duplessis is Prime Minister. This period is marked by the great conservatism of the party in power, the National union, which tries to maintain the values traditional of Quebec rural and catholic. The Québécois company knows one period of social and artistic stagnation that some compare with certain forms of Fascisme.
However, during Blackness, Quebec knows a push of its unionization in spite of the hostility of the government. This one uses of laws, the such Loi of the lock, and, with some recoveries, of the provincial police force to subdue the strikers, as at the time of the Grève of asbestos in Asbestos in 1949 or that of Louiseville in 1952. The strikers had found the support of Mgr Joseph Charbonneau. Various movements of intellectuals dispute the positions of the National union, particularly in the cultural field.
The Total Refusal, written under the inspiration of the Automatistes Paul-Emile Borduas, Claude Gauvreau and Jean-Paul Riopelle, proves to be a radical answer to the artistic conservatism of the time. The text, which calls in question the traditional values, rejects the opposition to progress of the Québécois company of the time. But as a whole Maurice Duplessis enjoys a great popularity, more especially as it bitterly defends the autonomy of the province vis-a-vis the federal government. That enables him to renew three times its mandate of Prime Minister with such an insurance that the elections do not seem any more to be but one formality.
Great Blackness is completed with the death of Duplessis in 1959. The election in 1960 of the Liberal party of Quebec of Jean Lesage then inaugurates the Quiet revolution which transforms quickly and basic in roof the Québécois company, in particular by the laicization of the company, the creation of the État-providence and the rise of the Québécois Nationalisme.
It should be noted that several historians qualified the term Grande blackness of “black legend”
In 2002, the sociologist Jean-Philippe Warren wrote the book Sortir the Great Blackness. The horizon personalist of the Quiet revolution .
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