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Jacques Ferron
Jacques Ferron, doctor, writer (b at Louiseville, Qué 20 Jan 1921; d at St-Lambert, Qué 22 Apr 1985). His father was a Liberal Party organizer, and Ferron (brother of Marcelle FERRON) was early attracted to political opposition.
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Jacques Folch-Ribas
Jacques Folch-Ribas, novelist and art critic (b at Barcelona 4 Nov 1928). His family left Spain to flee the Franco regime, and settled in France in 1939.
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Jacques Francoeur
Jacques Gervais Francoeur, CM, journalist, businessman and philanthropist (born 15 May 1925 to Montreal, QC; died 24 July 2005 in Montreal). Francoeur is recognized as a leading figure in Quebec and Canadian media. He is a media magnate and the cofounder of the UniMédia newspaper chain. (See also Newspapers in Canada: 1900–1990s.)
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Jacques Genest
Jacques Genest, CC, GOQ, FRSC, physician, medical researcher (born 29 May 1919 in Montreal, QC; died 5 January 2018 in Montreal). Dr. Genest founded the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (Montreal Clinical Research Institute) in 1967 and is recognized for advancing clinical research and education in Quebec and Canada. He is equally known for publishing extensively and for contributing to the study of hypertension (also known as high blood pressure). (See also Heart Disease; Medical Research; Medical Education.)
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Jacques Gérard
Jacques (b Gerard) Gérard (b Poisson). Tenor, b Arthabaska, near Drummondville, Que, 26 Jul 1899, d Old Orchard, Me, 12 Aug 1957. He studied with Salvatore Issaurel in Montreal and with Désiré Demest in Brussels. After his debut in Liège in 1927 as Faust, he appeared in several other Belgian cities.
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Jacques Godbout
Jacques Godbout, novelist, essayist, filmmaker, poet (b at Montréal 27 Nov 1933). One of the most important writers of his generation, Godbout strongly influenced post-1960 Québec intellectual life. After studies at College Brébeuf and Université de Montréal, he taught French in Ethiopia.
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Jacques Godefroy de Tonnancour
Jacques Godefroy de Tonnancour, painter, photographer (b at Montréal 3 Jan 1917, d there 13 Jan 2005). His early influences ranged from the GROUP OF SEVEN and Goodridge ROBERTS in his landscapes to Picasso in figure painting.
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Jacques Grand'Maison
Jacques Grand'Maison, academic, writer and Catholic priest (born 18 December 1931 in Saint-Jérôme, Qc; died 5 November 2016 in Saint-Jérôme). He is one of the most prolific intellectual Québécois of his generation.
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Jacques Hébert
Jacques Hébert, journalist, travel writer, publisher, Senator (born 21 June 1923 in Montreal, QC; died 6 December 2007 in Montreal). Jacques Hébert was a crusading Quebec journalist and a trailblazing book publisher before and during the Quiet Revolution. He founded Canada World Youth, an exchange program dedicated to world peace, and co-founded Katimavik, a youth program offering volunteer positions across the country. As a member of the Senate, Hébert held a 21-day fast to protest the government’s cancellation of funding for Katimavik. His travels took him to over 130 countries; notably, he visited the People’s Republic of China in 1960 with longtime friend Pierre Trudeau. Hébert was also a noted critic of Quebec premier Maurice Duplessis and a federalist who scorned Quebec nationalism. He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1978.
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Jacques Hétu
Hétu's compositional output comprises over 50 works in diverse forms, making him one of the most frequently performed composers worldwide. Though not revolutionary, his musical idiom combines modality and dissonance with expressiveness and forcefulness.
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Jacques Hétu
On his return to Quebec in 1963, he taught 1963-77 at Laval University, giving classes in music literature and analysis, introducing an orchestration course, and establishing a composition class.
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Jacques Hurtubise
Jacques Hurtubise, painter (born 28 February 1939 in Montréal, QC; died 27 December 2014 in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia). He studied at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal. A grant in 1960 enabled him to spend time in New York and become acquainted with the art of the abstract expressionists, and he was there for much of the 1960s.
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Jacques Israelievitch
Jacques Israelievitch, CM, violinist, violist, conductor, teacher (born 6 May 1948 in Cannes, France; died 5 September 2015 in Toronto, Ontario). Violinist Jacques Israelievitch was renowned internationally for his versatility, sensitivity and virtuosic technical ability. After studying in Paris and playing with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the St. Louis Symphony, Israelievitch became the Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s longest-serving concertmaster (1998 to 2008). A supporter of contemporary music and Canadian composers, he made more than 100 recordings and performed often with noted orchestras and in chamber ensembles worldwide. He was made a Member of the Order of Canada and an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters in France.
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Jacques Labrecque
Jacques Labrecque. Baritone, folksinger, storyteller, producer, publisher, ethnologist, ( St. Benoît, near Montreal, 8 Jun 1917 - Longueuil, QC, 18 March 1995). He developed a taste for singing while living on his parents' farm.
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Jacques Languirand
Jacques Languirand, dramatist, essayist (born 1 May 1931 in Montréal, Québec; died 26 January 2018). In the 1950s and 1960s he was Canada's most important exponent of the theatre of the absurd, having been much influenced by playwrights in vogue during his stay in Paris, 1949-53.
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