Mount Raoul Blanchard (french: Mont Raoul-Blanchard) is the highest peak in the Laurentian Mountains,

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at . It is located in the La Côte-de-Beaupré RCM, north east of

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and north of Saint-Tite-des-Caps in the Réserve faunique des Laurentides. The peak is named after

Raoul Blanchard Raoul Blanchard (4 September 1877 – 24 March 1965) was a French geographer. He taught at the University of Grenoble from 1906 and devoted most of his research to Alpine and Canadian geography. Early life The son of an inspector of the Departm ...

(1877-1965), a geographer who had significant interest in the

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and the mountains of Quebec.

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