Pierre Bourgault

Pierre Bourgault (East Angus, January 23rd, 1934 - Montreal, June 16th, 2003) was in turn Politician, polemist, Essayiste, Professor of Université, leader-writer and Radio presenter. Burning defender of the French language, it militated until the end his life for the independence of Quebec. He is besides one of the pioneers of the independence movement Québécois. During his career, Pierre Bourgault would have pronounced close to: 4000 speeches.

Biography

Pierre Bourgault was born with East Angus, a small town located at the east of Sherbrooke, in Estrie. As of 1960, it positions as a defender of the people, denouncing the injustices, pleading against the Capital punishment and preaching the independence of Quebec. In 1964, whereas the Quebec is in full heart of the Quiet revolution, at only 30 years, he becomes the president of the Rassemblement for national independence (RIN).

In 1968, the party east dissolves and it invites its members to join the rows of the Mouvement Sovereignty-Association (MSA), directed by Rene Lévesque and which constituted a more moderate party. Later, the MSA amalgamates with another nationalist party, the national Rassemblement, and becomes the Parti Québécois. With the passing, Bourgault declared that the scuttling of the RIN was the greatest error of its life. In spite of similar political convictions, it has many divergences of opinions with Rene Lévesque and leaves the Québécois Party in 1981.

During the Years 1970, he was journalist with the French edition of the magazine MacLeans , where he covers the cultural effervescence of the time. It takes an active part in this mobility and signing one of the anthems of the Québécois rock'n'roll of the time, Between two joints , popularized by Robert Charlebois.

Of 1976 with 2000, Bourgault was also professor at the department of communications of the Université from Quebec in Montreal, where he teaches with several generations of future transfer, of which the Cinéaste Jean-Claude Lauzon, the Journaliste Sophie-Andree Blondin, the chronicler Nicolas Langelier, the journalist and stimulating Josée DiStasio and the Acteur Humoriste Guy A. Lepage. During Years 1990, he is chronicler for the Newspaper of Montreal and takes part in many television programs and radio, of which Present indicative , where he held a daily chronicle until his death.

Paradoxically, it received atheistic Funérailles with the Basilique Notre-Dame of Montreal.

Works

  • free or double Quebec , Montreal, Ferron, 1970
  • Yes with the independence of Quebec , Montreal, Fifteen, 1977
  • Now or never, talks , Montreal, Stanké
  • pleasure of freedom , Montreal, optical News, 1983
  • Written polemics 1960-1981, 1. The Policy , Montreal, Stanké, 1989
  • Me, I remember it , Montreal, Stanké, 1989

Honors

External bonds

  • Biography of Pierre Bourgault by Jean-François Nadeau

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