Jacques Duval

Jacques Duval (1934 with Lauzon, Quebec -) is a Journaliste, chronicler automobile and old Racing driver Québécois. In Quebec, it is especially known as being the founder of the book Guide of the car , published since 1967.

Biography

It was born in Lauzon in the parish St-Antoine de Bienville (today Lévis).

With the beginning of the year 1950, at 18 years, it animates the emission the Cemetery of the disc for Télé Metropolis.

Jacques Duval is interested in the world of the car at the end of the years 1950. He makes his beginnings in race then and gains the first Grand Prix of Three-Rivers in 1967. He is several times thereafter the Québécois champion of the racing drivers.

In the middle of the Years 1960, Duval animates Prenez the wheel with Radio-Canada, an emission on the cars. “ Very sure of my means, I bôniment told my without to have taken care of griffonner some notes… until aù day when I royally missed my blow in a speech at the edge of the ridicule. ” This mishap encourages it to take notes on paperboards. The following year, these paperboards are used to him to write its first Guide of the car .

In 1974, in front of his success in Quebec, an anglophone editor tries to sell an English translation in English Canada, without much success. From 1987 to 1993, Duval is devoted to the journalist, telling his experiments especially. It returns to the Guide in 1993 as collaborator.

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