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" Vive le Québec libre ! " ( French: [viv lə ke.bɛk libʁ] , 'Long live free Quebec!') was a phrase in a speech delivered by French President Charles de Gaulle in Montreal , Quebec on July 24, 1967, during an official visit to Canada for the Expo 67 world's fair.
In June 1967, during a state visit for the Canadian Centennial, French president Charles de Gaulle made a speech from the balcony of Montreal City Hall in which he declared Vive le Québec libre! [2] The phrase was a slogan of Quebec sovereignty, and its delivery by de Gaulle deeply offended the Canadian federal government, which derided him.
Quebec Libre is a board game of cooperation and conflict for 2–6 players in which players control various areas of Canada, and must negotiate with each other, either openly or privately, for funding, popular support and power, as each player grapples with standard of living, popularity, unemployment, energy, production, taxation, consumption, exports, and development.
Assemblée des six-comtés – Patriotes Rebellion – Francoeur Motion – Quiet Revolution – Vive le Québec libre speech – October Crisis – Le 15 novembre – 1980 Quebec referendum – Patriation of the Constitution – Night of the Long Knives – Demise of the Meech Lake Accord – Charlottetown Accord referendum – 1995 Quebec ...
"Gens du pays" is a Quebecois song that has been called the unofficial national anthem of Quebec. [1] Written by poet and singer-songwriter Gilles Vigneault, and with music co-written by Gaston Rochon, it was first performed by Vigneault on June 24, 1975 during a concert on Montreal's Mount Royal at that year's Fête nationale du Québec ceremony.
Je me souviens on changing the guard ceremony in Quebec City Royal 22 e Régiment badge at Citadelle of Quebec includes regimental motto Je me souviens. Taché appears not to have left an explanation of the motto's intended meaning but he wrote a letter to the deputy minister of public works, Siméon Lesage, that showed what he intended to accomplish with the statues on the building's façade ...
The 1978 edition, published at the French publishing house of the Union générale d'éditions, displayed upon the cover the mention "Pour un Québec libre" (For a Free Quebec). This was a decade after the Vive le Québec libre speech of French President Charles de Gaulle, two years after the first election of a contemporary independence party ...
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