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François Brassard
The author of numerous essays, as well as analyses and harmonizations of French Canadian folk songs, Brassard is closely linked with Université de Laval's Archives de folklore. In 1946 he was appointed to the archives' publications committee and in 1971 joined its research centre.
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François Brassard
In 1940 Brassard began his important work in the research, compilation, editing, and harmonization of French-Canadian folksongs.
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François Charron
François Charron, poet, essayist and painter (b at Longueuil 22 Feb 1952). François Charron is one of the most important poets of his generation, and his output is among the richest of the years 1970-2000.
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François Cousineau
François Cousineau, composer, pianist, accompanist, arranger, producer, conductor (born 10 May 1942 in Montréal, QC).
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François D'Angé
François D'Angé (or d'Anger). Musician, fl 1662-3. One of the first persons referred to as a musician in Canadian historical documents. He was accepted as a boarder at the Jesuit College in Quebec in the fall of 1662.
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François de Beauharnois de La Chaussaye, Baron de Beauville
François de Beauharnois de La Chaussaye, Baron de Beauville, INTENDANT of New France 1702-05 (bap 19 Sept 1665 near Orléans, France; d there 9 Sept 1746). Beauharnois, a protégé of the minister of marine, faced a difficult situation on his arrival in New France.
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François de Laval
François de Laval, first bishop of Québec (born François-Xavier de Montmorency-Laval de Montigny on 30 April 1623 in Montigny-sur-Avre, France; died 6 May 1708 in Québec).
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François Dollier de Casson
François Dollier de Casson, explorer, superior of the Sulpicians in New France (1670-74, 1678-1701), seigneur of Montréal, vicar general, historian (b in the château of Casson-sur-l'Erdre in Lower Brittany 1636; d at Montréal 27 Sept 1701).
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François Dompierre
(Joseph Eugène Frédéric) François Dompierre. Composer, accompanist, conductor, arranger, producer, b Ottawa 1 Jul 1943. He studied piano with Hélène Landry and Noëlla Vaillancourt in Ottawa and then organ with Paul Larose.
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François-Gaston de Lévis
François-Gaston, Duc de Lévis, French army officer (born 20 August 1719 near Limoux, France; died 26 November 1787 in Arras, France). Born into an impoverished branch of the French nobility, he rose through the military hierarchy thanks to his family connections, his sangfroid and his bravery on the battlefield. Deployed to New France during the Seven Years’ War, he was named second-in-command to Marquis Louis-Joseph de Montcalm. On 28 April 1760, he won the Battle of Ste-Foy against the British garrison in Quebec City commanded by James Murray.
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François Girard
François Girard, filmmaker, screenwriter (b Saint-Félicien, Qué 12 Jan 1963). Following studies in music, Girard turned to audiovisual techniques and in the mid-1980s began a career as a video producer without, however, turning his back completely on music videos and publicity.
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François Héraly
(J.A.) François Héraly. Clarinetist, bandmaster, teacher, b Flavin, near Namur, Belgium, 1856, d Montreal between 20 and 22 Jul 1920. In 1867 he began music study in Brussels, and in 1873 he attended the conservatory at Namur, where he joined a regimental band.
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François Hertel
François Hertel, pseudonym of Rodolphe Dubé (b at Rivière-Ouelle, Qué 31 May 1905; d at Montréal 4 Oct 1985). At 20 he entered the Jesuits and he was ordained in 1938.
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François Legault
François Legault, businessman, politician and premier of Quebec (born 26 May 1957 in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Québec). Co-founder of Air Transat, François Legault was a minister in the Parti Québécois governments of Lucien Bouchard and Bernard Landry. As leader of the Coalition avenir Québec, a political party he founded in 2011, he was elected premier of Quebec on 1 October 2018. Some of his accomplishments are the adoption of Bill 21 (An Act Respecting the Laicity of the State), Bill 96, which made several amendments to the Charter of the French language, and the management of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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