Fernand Dumont (24 June 1927 – 1 May 1997) was a Canadian sociologist, philosopher,

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, and poet from

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'', 19 March 2008. A longtime professor at

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, he won the Governor General's Award for French-language non-fiction at the

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for ''Le lieu de l'homme''.

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