Robert Charbonneau (February 3, 1911 – June 26, 1967) was a French-Canadian journalist, writer, and literary critic.
Biography
Charbonneau was born in Montreal. He began his studies at Ecole Saint-Stanislas in 1919 and continued his classical studies at Collège Sainte-Marie in 1925 and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1933. He studied for a year at the Université de Montréal and graduated as a journalist one year later in 1934.
In 1934, he and
Paul Beaulieu
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created La Relève, a student newspaper, which became La Nouvelle Relève in 1941 and which he directed until 1948.
In 1940, he and
Claude Hurtubise founded Éditions de l'Arbre, which republished works that were prohibited in
Occupied France
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. They also published works by young French-Canadian writers such as
Roger Lemelin
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and
Yves Thériault
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.
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In 1949, he returned to his former profession as a journalist and became assistant to the director of information at La Presse. He also worked for other French Journals as well as ]Radio Canada
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In 1967 he published his last novel, ''Chronique de l'âge amer'', a semi-autobiographical memoir set in the 1930s. That same year he was made president of the ''Société des écrivains'', but he suffered a fatal heart attack that same year.][ He was entombed at the ]Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery
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in Montreal.
Charbonneau's archival fonds are kept at the Montreal archives centre of the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec.
Works
Novels
* ''Ils posséderont la terre'', Éditions de l'Arbre, Le Serpent d'airain (1941)
* ''Fontile'', Éditions de l'Arbre (1945)
* ''Les Désirs et les Jours'', Éditions de l'Arbre (1948)
* ''Aucune créature'', Éditions Beauchemin (1961)
* ''Chronique de l'âge amer'', Éditions du Sablier (1967)
Other publications
* ''Connaissance du personnage'', Éditions de l'Arbre (1944)
* ''Petits poèmes retrouvés'', Éditions de l'Arbre (1945)
* ''La France et nous'', Éditions de l'Arbre (1947)
* ''Robert Charbonneau et la création romanesque'', les Éditions du Lévrier (1948)
* ''Aucun chemin n'est sûr...'', XYZ éditeur (1990)
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1911 births
1967 deaths
20th-century Canadian novelists
Canadian male novelists
Canadian novelists in French
Writers from Montreal
Burials at Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery