''La Nation'' (''The Nation'') was a weekly review covering Canadian (Québécois) politics and literature. It was directed by

Paul Bouchard Paul Bouchard (1908–1997) was a Canadian ( Québécois) lawyer, right-wing politician, and journalist. Paul's parents were Bernadette Boulet Bouchard and Alfred Bouchard. He studied at the Séminaire de Québec from 1920 to 28. A family fr ...

and ran from 1936 to 1939. It had a right wing

sovereigntist Sovereigntism, sovereignism or souverainism (from french: souverainisme, , meaning the ideology of sovereignty) is the notion of having control over one's conditions of existence, whether at the level of the self, social group, region, nation o ...

, Quebec nationalist stance, and took for its motto "Pour un État libre français en Amérique" (For a Free French State in America). La Nation's writers consisted of students who rejected the

clerico-nationalism Clerico-Nationalism was a right-wing ideology current in Quebec from the years after World War I until the end of the 1950s, (from the premiership of Maurice Duplessis until the Quiet Revolution). Clerico-nationalism was a traditionalist, religi ...

of the Catholic priest and nationalist Lionel Groulx. The weekly aimed to be both secular and critical of the British. Its supporters formed the Republican Fasces, a small,

fascist Fascism is a far-right, Authoritarianism, authoritarian, ultranationalism, ultra-nationalist political Political ideology, ideology and Political movement, movement,: "extreme militaristic nationalism, contempt for electoral democracy and pol ...

group which was similarly directed by Bouchard. In 1962, supporters of Quebec independence reclaimed the heritage of La Nation and founded La Libre Nation, whose motto was "Pour un Québec libre et français" (For a Free and French Quebec).

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Politics of Quebec Far-right politics in Canada Quebec nationalism {{Quebec-stub

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