André D'Allemagne
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André D'Allemagne was a translator, political science teacher, essayist and a militant for the independence of Quebec
from Canada
. Along with some 20 other people including Marcel Chaput
and Jacques Bellemare, he was a founding member of the Rassemblement pour l'indépendance nationale
(RIN).
commune, in the French département of Ain
.
He completed his classical studies at Collège Stanislas de Montréal
between 1940 and 1948. He began studies in linguistics first at McGill University
, then later at Université de Montréal
, where in 1952 he obtained a master's degree for a thesis entitled Antagonismes linguistiques chez le bilingue.
After obtaining his master's degree, he practised the work of translator for the debates division of the Canadian federal Parliament
. Between 1954 and 1964, he also worked as a creative writer and translator for the The Canadian Press and various advertising agencies in Montreal and Toronto. In January 1958, he took part in the first simultaneous translation experiment on CBC
/Société Radio-Canada. With Andrée Francœur and Blake T. Hanna, two other graduated of Université de Montréal, he interpreted the speeches of speakers for the Congress of the federal Liberal Party of Canada
held in Ottawa
.
In March 1958, the Alliance laurentienne
's review Laurentie published a letter he sent to the editors. In what is maybe his first political opinion text in favour of the independence of Quebec, he asserted that the centralizing policy of Ottawa since World War II
threatened Quebec's survival and that the autonomist action was globally a failure on top of being insufficient. According to him, the Laurentian State was not only possible, but necessary and urgent. He concluded his text by inviting the partisans of independence not to take position too quickly on the kind of political regime that a "free and renovated Québec" would assume. Whether socialist, capitalist or corporatist, he said, that State will never materialize if the pro-independence militants fail to achieve unity beyond their opinions on matters of political organization, social doctrines and religious beliefs. Also in March 1958, the McGill Daily, student paper of McGill University, published one of his texts in a special issue entitled "French Canada Today". In this text he summarized the history of French Canadians for his English-speaking public on the basis of his own readings of historians Mason Wade, Thomas B. Costain
and Michel Brunet
.
On September 10, 1960, he took part with 20 other people to the foundation of the Rassemblement pour l'indépendance nationale (RIN) which took place at the Auberge Le Châtelet in Morin Heights in the Laurentides. He was elected president of the new organization. The idea that the RIN had to strive to unite French Canadians on the question of national independence beyond political divergences, an idea also shared by vice-president Marcel Chaput
, was at the heart of the new organization's action in its early years.
In 1964, the Association générale des étudiants de l'Université de Montréal
(AGÉUM) appointed him technical councillor. He appears as himself in Denis Héroux
's movie Jusqu'au cou released in December of that year.
The RIN, turned into a social democrat political party in 1964, presented him for candidate in the Outremont electoral district
during the Quebec general election of June 5, 1966
. He came in second behind Jérôme Choquette
of the Parti libéral du Québec
with 3,218 votes (12.67%). His essay Le colonialisme au Québec was published that year.
After the dissolution of the RIN in 1968, he became member of the Parti Québécois
. From 1969, he was teaching political sciences at Collège de Maisonneuve
and retired from active politics.
In 1971, the political science faculty of Université de Montréal granted him a master's degree for his thesis Le Rassemblement pour l'indépendance nationale de 1960–1963, étude d'un groupe de pression au Québec. His thesis was published in 1974 with a preface by sociologist Marcel Rioux.
He had three children with journalist Lysiane Gagnon
: Nicolas (1976), Catherine (1978) and Anne (1981).
In 1978, he started working on a doctoral thesis of political science under the advisorship of Edmond Orban, professor at Université de Montréal. He abandoned his nearly-complete thesis "for personal and confidential reasons" in May 1980.
He died on February 1, 2001 at the age of 71 years old, after suffering from cancer for three years. An adieu ceremony organized by his family was held at the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Montréal
's Maison Ludger-Duvernay on February 6.
In 2002, Jean-Claude Labrecque
directed a historical documentary on the RIN in which one can see archive footage of André D'Allemagne as well as the last interview he gave for the camera.
Translations
Thesis
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
from Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
. Along with some 20 other people including Marcel Chaput
Marcel Chaput
Marcel Chaput "", in Bilan du Siècle, Université de Sherbrooke, retrieved June 5, 2008) was a scientist and a militant for the independence of Quebec from Canada...
and Jacques Bellemare, he was a founding member of the Rassemblement pour l'indépendance nationale
Rassemblement pour l'indépendance nationale
The Rassemblement pour l'Indépendance Nationale was a political organization dedicated to the promotion of Quebec national independence from Canada.-History:...
(RIN).
Biography
André D'Allemagne was born in Montreal on October 14, 1929. His father was Pierre D'Allemagne and his mother Marie-Hélène Stella Hamelin. His paternal grand-father was baron André D'Allemagne (1865–1960), mayor of the BelleyBelley
Belley is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France.-History:Belley is of Roman origin, and in the 5th century became an episcopal see. It was the capital of the province of Bugey, which was a dependency of Savoy till 1601, when it was ceded to France...
commune, in the French département of Ain
Ain
Ain is a department named after the Ain River on the eastern edge of France. Being part of the region Rhône-Alpes and bordered by the rivers Saône and Rhône, the department of Ain enjoys a privileged geographic situation...
.
He completed his classical studies at Collège Stanislas de Montréal
Collège Stanislas (Quebec)
Collège Stanislas in Sainte-Foy and Outremont, Quebec is an exclusive French language private education institution for boys and girls aged 4 to 18 years.-History:...
between 1940 and 1948. He began studies in linguistics first at McGill University
McGill University
Mohammed Fathy is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Glasgow, Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university...
, then later at Université de Montréal
Université de Montréal
The Université de Montréal is a public francophone research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It comprises thirteen faculties, more than sixty departments and two affiliated schools: the École Polytechnique and HEC Montréal...
, where in 1952 he obtained a master's degree for a thesis entitled Antagonismes linguistiques chez le bilingue.
After obtaining his master's degree, he practised the work of translator for the debates division of the Canadian federal Parliament
Parliament of Canada
The Parliament of Canada is the federal legislative branch of Canada, seated at Parliament Hill in the national capital, Ottawa. Formally, the body consists of the Canadian monarch—represented by her governor general—the Senate, and the House of Commons, each element having its own officers and...
. Between 1954 and 1964, he also worked as a creative writer and translator for the The Canadian Press and various advertising agencies in Montreal and Toronto. In January 1958, he took part in the first simultaneous translation experiment on CBC
CBC Radio
CBC Radio generally refers to the English-language radio operations of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The CBC operates a number of radio networks serving different audiences and programming niches, all of which are outlined below.-English:CBC Radio operates three English language...
/Société Radio-Canada. With Andrée Francœur and Blake T. Hanna, two other graduated of Université de Montréal, he interpreted the speeches of speakers for the Congress of the federal Liberal Party of Canada
Liberal Party of Canada
The Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the Liberal Party has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative...
held in Ottawa
Ottawa
Ottawa is the capital of Canada, the second largest city in the Province of Ontario, and the fourth largest city in the country. The city is located on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario...
.
In March 1958, the Alliance laurentienne
Alliance laurentienne
The Alliance laurentienne was a political organization founded by Raymond Barbeau on January 25, 1957. It was an early organization of the contemporary independence movement of Quebec but, unlike the majority of those to come, it adopted somewhat right-wing, even corporatist politics...
's review Laurentie published a letter he sent to the editors. In what is maybe his first political opinion text in favour of the independence of Quebec, he asserted that the centralizing policy of Ottawa since World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
threatened Quebec's survival and that the autonomist action was globally a failure on top of being insufficient. According to him, the Laurentian State was not only possible, but necessary and urgent. He concluded his text by inviting the partisans of independence not to take position too quickly on the kind of political regime that a "free and renovated Québec" would assume. Whether socialist, capitalist or corporatist, he said, that State will never materialize if the pro-independence militants fail to achieve unity beyond their opinions on matters of political organization, social doctrines and religious beliefs. Also in March 1958, the McGill Daily, student paper of McGill University, published one of his texts in a special issue entitled "French Canada Today". In this text he summarized the history of French Canadians for his English-speaking public on the basis of his own readings of historians Mason Wade, Thomas B. Costain
Thomas B. Costain
Thomas Bertram Costain was a Canadian journalist who became a best-selling author of historical novels at the age of 57.-Life:...
and Michel Brunet
Michel Brunet (historian)
Michel Brunet was a Quebec historian and essayist. He received his B.A. and M.A. from the Université de Montréal and received his Ph.D. from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.A....
.
On September 10, 1960, he took part with 20 other people to the foundation of the Rassemblement pour l'indépendance nationale (RIN) which took place at the Auberge Le Châtelet in Morin Heights in the Laurentides. He was elected president of the new organization. The idea that the RIN had to strive to unite French Canadians on the question of national independence beyond political divergences, an idea also shared by vice-president Marcel Chaput
Marcel Chaput
Marcel Chaput "", in Bilan du Siècle, Université de Sherbrooke, retrieved June 5, 2008) was a scientist and a militant for the independence of Quebec from Canada...
, was at the heart of the new organization's action in its early years.
In 1964, the Association générale des étudiants de l'Université de Montréal
Fédération des associations étudiantes du campus de l'Université de Montréal
The Fédération des associations étudiantes du campus de l'Université de Montréal is an accredited federation of students' associations on Université de Montréal's campus. It encompasses 85 different students' associations and represents a total of 37,500 members. Its objective is to promote and...
(AGÉUM) appointed him technical councillor. He appears as himself in Denis Héroux
Denis Héroux
Denis Héroux, OC is a Canadian film director and producer.-Biography:Héroux wanted to become a teacher when he collaborated with Denys Arcand and Stéphane Venne on the 1962 film about life as a student, Seul ou avec d’autres...
's movie Jusqu'au cou released in December of that year.
The RIN, turned into a social democrat political party in 1964, presented him for candidate in the Outremont electoral district
Outremont (provincial electoral district)
Outremont is a provincial electoral district in the province of Quebec, Canada. Located in central Montreal, the riding was created in 1965. Previously, it was part of the riding of Montreal-Outremont that existed from 1939 to 1965...
during the Quebec general election of June 5, 1966
Quebec general election, 1966
The Quebec general election of 1966 was held on June 5, 1966, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec, Canada. The Union Nationale , led by Daniel Johnson, Sr, defeated the incumbent Quebec Liberal Party, led by Jean Lesage....
. He came in second behind Jérôme Choquette
Jérôme Choquette
Jérôme Choquette is a lawyer and politician in Quebec, Canada.-Background:Choquette was born in Montreal, Quebec, and studied at the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Academy and Collège Stanislas in Montreal, a Roman Catholic private school and the most elite institution of its kind in Quebec...
of the Parti libéral du Québec
Parti libéral du Québec
The Quebec Liberal Party is a centre-right political party in Quebec. It has been independent of the federal Liberal Party of Canada since 1955....
with 3,218 votes (12.67%). His essay Le colonialisme au Québec was published that year.
After the dissolution of the RIN in 1968, he became member of the Parti Québécois
Parti Québécois
The Parti Québécois is a centre-left political party that advocates national sovereignty for the province of Quebec and secession from Canada. The Party traditionally has support from the labour movement. Unlike many other social-democratic parties, its ties with the labour movement are informal...
. From 1969, he was teaching political sciences at Collège de Maisonneuve
Collège de Maisonneuve
Collège de Maisonneuve is a francophone Cégep pre-university and technical college located at 3800 Sherbrooke Street East in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.-Partnerships:...
and retired from active politics.
In 1971, the political science faculty of Université de Montréal granted him a master's degree for his thesis Le Rassemblement pour l'indépendance nationale de 1960–1963, étude d'un groupe de pression au Québec. His thesis was published in 1974 with a preface by sociologist Marcel Rioux.
He had three children with journalist Lysiane Gagnon
Lysiane Gagnon
Lysiane Gagnon is a journalist based in Quebec. She has written for Montreal's La Presse since 1980 and Toronto's Globe and Mail since 1990.- Biography :...
: Nicolas (1976), Catherine (1978) and Anne (1981).
In 1978, he started working on a doctoral thesis of political science under the advisorship of Edmond Orban, professor at Université de Montréal. He abandoned his nearly-complete thesis "for personal and confidential reasons" in May 1980.
He died on February 1, 2001 at the age of 71 years old, after suffering from cancer for three years. An adieu ceremony organized by his family was held at the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Montréal
Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society
The Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society is an institution in Quebec dedicated to the protection of Quebec francophone interests and to the promotion of Quebec Sovereignism. Its current President is Mario Beaulieu....
's Maison Ludger-Duvernay on February 6.
In 2002, Jean-Claude Labrecque
Jean-Claude Labrecque
Jean-Claude Labrecque, is a director and cinematographer who learned the basics of filmmaking at the Quebec Film Office and the National Film Board of Canada.-Career:...
directed a historical documentary on the RIN in which one can see archive footage of André D'Allemagne as well as the last interview he gave for the camera.
Publications
Essays- Le Colonialisme au Québec (1966)
- La Capitulation tranquille. Les «multinationales», pouvoir politique parallèle? (1972)
- Le R.I.N. de 1960 à 1963. Étude d'un groupe de pression au Québec (1974)
- Le presque pays (1998)
- Une idée qui somnolait : écrits sur la souveraineté du Québec depuis les origines du RIN, 1958-2000 (2000)
Translations
- Stanley Brehaut RyersonStanley Brehaut RyersonStanley Brehaut Ryerson was a Canadian historian, educator, political activist. There is very little information available concerning his parents, but Ryerson was born in 1911, into a well-off middle class family in Toronto...
, Le Capitalisme et la Confédération. Aux sources du conflit Canada-Québec (1760-1873) (1972) - Kari Levitt, La capitulation tranquille (1972)
- Brian YoungBrian YoungBrian Young is the drummer for the New York based power pop band Fountains of Wayne who have released four major label albums and scored an RIAA certified gold record for their single Stacy's Mom...
, George-Étienne Cartier, bourgeois montréalais (1982) - Rae Murphy, Robert Chodos, Nick Auf Der MaurNick Auf der MaurNick Auf der Maur was a journalist, politician and "man about town" boulevardier in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was also the father of rock musician Melissa Auf der Maur, through his marriage to Linda Gaboriau....
, Brian Mulroney (1984) - Crawford Brough Macpherson, Principes et limites de la démocratie libérale (1985)
Thesis
- Antagonismes linguistiques chez le bilingue (1952)
- Le Rassemblement pour l'indépendance nationale de 1960-1963, étude d'un groupe de pression au Québec (1971)