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Maurice Duplessis, 18901959.

Marguerite Paulin

Marguerite Paulin produces and hosts her own radio show in Montreal at Radio Centre-Ville, on which she interviews writers. She has a doctorate (arts), has lectured for ten years at McGill University, and has taught at the collegiate level as well. She is the author of three other biographies Louis-Joseph Papineau, Ren Lvesque, and Flix Leclerc. She has also published essays and fiction.

The translator: Nora Alleyn

Nora Alleyn grew up in a bicultural family in Quebec City. After a B.A. from McGill University (languages), and diplomatic postings in Europe and the Middle East, she returned to Montreal where she worked for many years at the National Film Board of Canada as a staff writer and translator. She now works almost exclusively as a literary translator.

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Maurice Duplessis

MARGUERITE PAULIN

Maurice Duplessis

POWERBROKER, POLITICIAN

Copyright 2002 Marguerite Paulin and XYZ diteur.
English translation copyright 2005 Nora Alleyn and XYZ Publishing.

All rights reserved. The use of any part of this publication reproduced, transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or stored in a retrieval system without the prior written consent of the publisher or, in the case of photocopying or other reprographic copying, a licence from the Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency is an infringement of the copyright law.

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Paulin, Marguerite, 1955-

Maurice Duplessis: powerbroker, politician

(The Quest library; 26)

Translation of: Maurice Duplessis: Le noblet, le petit roi.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-894852-17-6

1. Duplessis, Maurice, 1890-1959. 2. Qubec (Province) Politics and government 1936-1960. 3. Prime ministers Qubec (Province) Biography. I. Alleyn, Nora. II. Title. III. Series: Quest library; 26.

FC2924.1.D86P3813 2005 971.404092 C2005-941665-3

Legal Deposit: Third quarter 2005
Library and Archives Canada
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The publishers further acknowledge the financial support our publishing program receives from The Canada Council for the Arts, the ministre de la Culture et des Communications du Qubec, and the Socit de dveloppement des entreprises culturelles.

Chronology: Michle Vanasse
Index: Darcy Dunton
Layout: discript enr.
Cover design: Zirval Design
Cover illustration: Francine Auger
Photo research: Anne-Marie Sicotte and Marcel Brouillard

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In memory of my father, my dear mother, my nephew Alexis,

and, of course, to Victor-Lvy Beaulieu.

We were a people hungry for
legitimacy. We accepted power
as long as it meant absolute Power,
regardless of outcome.
Our drive for power was constant.

Paul Chamberland, De la damnation la libert

Its difficult to define how we must keep the faith.
History only provides us with
certain signs, certain arguments.
But an argument is not truth per se,
only a way of looking at things.
History has no purpose other than to defend a cause.
The important thing is to know what cause
we are defending.

Pierre Perrault, Un pays sans bon sens

Contents

T he name Maurice Duplessis will always spark debate. To some, he is Quebecs greatest premier. To others, he will always be a tyrant, a fascist.

This biographical narrative does not set out either to judge or to exonerate him. Others before me have taken sides. Others after me will take sides. But not everything has been said about Duplessis.

In order to write this book, I needed to research his life. I followed his traces the traces of a man who figured so prominently in Quebecs political history. My research revealed the dark recesses of his personality before the man gradually evolved into the politician he became.

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