Jules-Paul Tardivel

Jules-Paul Tardivel (September 2nd 1851 - April 24th 1905), journalist and novelist ultramontane, was the first Québécois to recommend the independence of Quebec and the introduction of a republic Canadian-Frenchwoman.

Biography

Tardivel was born with Covington, in the Kentucky. He is the son of two immigrants made recently of France and Great Britain, Claude Tardivel and Isabella Brent. To died of his mother, her father entrusts it to the guard of a maternal aunt who lives with Mount Vernon, Ohio.

His/her uncle, the Brent abbot, receives one day the visit of priests of the Low-Canada which persuade it to send it to study with the seminar of Saint-Hyacinthe. Tardivel arrives at the Quebec in 1868 and makes its traditional studies in four years instead of the seven or eight years usual. He becomes a dedicated ultramontane then and takes a great interest to follow the fight of Pie IX against the Sardinian troops, which seek to seize Rome. Several Inhabitants of Quebec then cross the Atlantic under the banner of the pontifical zouaves in order to defend the pope whom they believe in danger. The young student then defends strongly the interests of the Church in his writings.

In 1872, Tardivel goes back to the United States but, disillusioned by the policy of Rebuilding, returns to Quebec as of the following year. It is initially engaged with the Courrier of Saint-Hyacinthe then, in September 1873, becomes member of the drafting of the Minerve , a preserving newspaper of the time.

In 1874, it moves in Quebec and becomes journalist for the Canadian , joined soon by Joseph-Israel Tarte, which becomes owner in about it 1875. Tardivel then starts to be dissociated by its article devoteds to with defense of nationalism Canadian-French and the Catholicism and by the promotion of the French language. In 1880, it publishes the Anglicism, here is the enemy , where it attack on the Anglicisms which, according to him, denature the spoken language.

In 1881, it makes the meeting of the Father oblat Pierre-Zacharie Lacasse, who persuades it to found an independent newspaper, which would not be related to any political party and where it could defend his ideas more easily. In July, it separates from Tart, which it finds too related to the interests of the Conservative party and not enough to those of the Church and founds the Vérité , a weekly magazine which it will direct until its death, in 1905. The model of which it is inspired is the Univers of Louis Veuillot, one of the newspapers the most powerful ultramontanes of France. Later, the Vérité will inspire the foundation of the Owe in Montreal, of the Droit in Ottawa and of the catholic Action in Quebec.

Tardivel has a single standpoint in the sense that he criticizes the conservatives as well as the liberals, and that he is caught of them even with the positions Québécois bishops whom he considers too liberal compared to those of the pope. It is more preserving than liberal but, in 1885, it is caught some with their eagerness to cut down Louis Riel and separates from them. At one time, it takes party for Honore Mercier but attacks him savagely when the political scandals start to mine its government. He also disapproves the policy of Wilfrid Laurier, informant who he loosely dropped the French-speaking people from the West at the time of the Règlement Bay-tree-Greenway of 1896.

Tardivel has several affinities with Henri Bourassa but is distinguished from him by its concept of fatherland. Whereas, for Bourassa, the fatherland is bilingual and autonomous Canada of Great Britain, for Tardivel, it is a State Canadian-French and catholic.

In 1895, after a ten years reflection, Tardivel decides for the independence of Quebec. In its novel, For the fatherland , left the same year, it tries to show that detached Quebec of the remainder of Canada could better defend the French fact and catholic in North America. He sees this option from a point of view with more or less long run because, for him, independence will come at the hour chosen by Providence. It is not for the dissolution of the bonds with Great Britain because it believes that London alone can be opposed effectively to the centralizing aimings of Ottawa.

Contrary to the modern souverainists, Tardivel makes include in its independent territory a good part of the Ontario, New Brunswick and even a portion of the New England, where the French-speaking people are majority. It does not include there however the French-speaking populations of the Canadian West which it believes condemned.

Tardivel dies in Quebec in 1905 and rests, since, with the Cimetière Our-Lady-with-Belmont with Holy-Foy (Quebec). Its last leading article related to a criticism of Bay-tree, which had just yielded on the rights of the French-speaking people in the constitution from the new provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan.

Tardivel is regarded as one of the large Québécois journalists of the 19th century. Like, later, Henri Bourassa, it founded a newspaper independent of the political parties, which defended the interests of the catholic Canadian-French with the means of the edge. Intransigent ultramontane, it is one of the perfect representatives of preserving and religious Quebec of before the Années 1960.

Anecdote

Jules-Paul Tardivel, impassioned by the mystery, translated itself The Strange Case off Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde , of Robert Louis Stevenson, which it published in Quebec in 1888.

Sources

Biography of the biographical Dictionary of Canada in line

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