Jules-Paul Tardivel (2 September 1851 – 24 April 1905) was an American– Québécois writer and a significant promoter of

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. Tardivel was born in Covington,

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, and sent to

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, for his classical education in the

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. Despite learning French only in his late teens, he became a tireless promoter of French Quebec and detractor of

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. In July 1874 Tardivel began work in Quebec City on ''Le Canadien'', another paper dedicated to the interests of the Conservative Party. In the 1880s, he founded ''La Verité'', a weekly newspaper extolling his religious, political and social beliefs. Perennial topics included conspiracy theories (typically aimed at

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, or any combination thereof), conservative

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dogma, the domination of Quebec by

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, and the subversive effects of the

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movement. It survived his death, under the editorship of his son,until it ceased publication circa 1920. In the 1890s, he wrote a futuristic ''

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'' about

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called ''Pour la Patrie'' (translated into English the 1970s as ''For My Country''). In it, he accused

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, the first

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, of being a Freemason who conspired with the

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to oppress

and to crush the

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Biography at the ''Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online''
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