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Rene: a Canadian in search of a country, McClelland and Stewart, 223 pages ISBN 0-7710-2691-9; Dupont, Pierre (1977). How Levesque Won, Lorimer, 136 pages ISBN 0-88862-130-2 (translated by Sheila Fischman) Fennario, David (2003). The Death of René Lévesque, Talonbooks, March 10, 72 pages ISBN 0-88922-480-3; Fournier, Claude (1995).
The work was reprinted in Montreal in 1988, preceded by an essay of political scientist André Bernard entitled Option Québec 1968-1988. Another edition was published in 1997 by TYPO, preceded by an updated version of André Bernard's essay.
The 1973 Quebec general election was held on October 29, 1973 to elect members to National Assembly of Quebec, Canada.The incumbent Quebec Liberal Party, led by Premier Robert Bourassa, won re-election, defeating the Parti Québécois, led by René Lévesque, and the Union Nationale (UN).
The election also saw the emergence of two other political groups. The Democratic Alliance , led by Nick Auf der Maur , ran 13 candidates in the anglophone areas of the Island of Montreal , while the Parti national populaire (founded by Fabien Roy and Jérôme Choquette ) had 36 candidates provincewide but ran a less-organized campaign.
The Mouvement Souveraineté-Association (MSA, English: Movement for Sovereignty-Association) was a separatist [1] movement formed on November 19, 1967 by René Lévesque to promote the concept of sovereignty-association between Quebec and the rest of Canada.
In Quebec politics, le beau risque (French pronunciation: [lə bo ʁisk], the noble risk or the good risk) is a political catch phrase describing the "risk" the Parti Québécois (PQ or "péquistes") took in asking Quebecers to support federal Progressive Conservatives (PCs or "Tories") under Brian Mulroney and accept an amended version of the Constitution Act, 1982, which the péquiste Quebec ...
The 1970 Quebec general election was held on April 29, 1970, to elect members of the National Assembly of Quebec.The former Legislative Assembly had been renamed the "National Assembly" in 1968, with its members now known in English as Members of the National Assembly (MNAs).
Occurring soon after the Quiet Revolution, and taking into account the low economic and political state of French Canadians at the time, the support of a foreign head of state seemed to add credibility to the movement in the eyes of many, including future Quebec premier René Lévesque. [20] [21]