Raymond Barbeau (June 27, 1930 – March 5, 1992) was a teacher,
essayist
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,
literary critic
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, political figure and
naturopath. He was one of the early militants of the
contemporary independence movement of Quebec.
Barbeau was born in
Montreal
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in 1930 and earned in 1955 a doctorate from the
Université de Paris
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(La Sorbonne). In 1957, he founded the
Alliance laurentienne, one of the first 20th century organizations in favour of an
independent Quebec republic, and founded its official organ called ''
Laurentie''. He created the movement ''Les fils du Québec'' (French for "The Sons of Quebec") in 1970.
He died in Montreal in 1992.
Bibliography
*''J'ai choisi l'indépendance'' (1961)
*''Le Québec est-il une colonie ?'' (1962)
*''La libération économique du Québec'' (1963)
*''Le Québec bientôt unilingue?'' (1965)
*''Oui au référendum. Procès de la Confédération'' (1977)
*''Le Québec souverain, un pays normal'' (1978)
See also
*
Quebec sovereignty movement
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Quebec nationalism
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Politics of Quebec
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References
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La Mémoire du Québec
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* Jean-Marc Brunet. ''Le prophète solitaire. Raymond Barbeau et son époque'' Montréal : Ordre naturiste social de Saint-Marc l’Évangéliste Inc., 2000. 582 pages
* Xavier Gélinas.
Compte-rendu de Le prophète solitaire. Raymond Barbeau et son époque, in ''Mens, Revue d'histoire intellectuelle de l'Amérique française'', Volume III, numéro 2 (spring 2003)
* ''Raymond Barbeau et l'Alliance laurentienne : les ultras de l'indépendantisme québécois'', M.A.
istoire Université de Montréal, 1997, vii-219 p.
University of Paris alumni
Political consultants from Quebec
Writers from Montreal
1930 births
1992 deaths
Canadian non-fiction writers in French
Canadian expatriates in France
Canadian male non-fiction writers
French Quebecers
Naturopaths
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