Mayor andre pierre biography of william

TRUDEAU, PIERRE ELLIOTT (baptized Joseph-Philippe-Pierre-Yves-Elliott), lawyer, author, university professor, and politician; b. 18 Oct. 1919 in Outremont (Montreal), son of Joseph-Charles-Émile Trudeau* and Grace Elliott; m. 4 March 1971 Margaret Sinclair in Vancouver, and they had three sons; they divorced in 1984; he also had a daughter with Deborah Coyne; d. 28 Sept. 2000 in Montreal and was buried in Saint-Rémi, near Napierville, Que.

On his father’s side, Pierre Trudeau (he would add Elliott in the 1930s and sometimes used a hyphen) was a descendant of Étienne Truteau (Trudeau), a carpenter from La Rochelle, France, who had arrived in New France in 1659. Pierre’s father, known to his friends as Charlie or Charley, was born on a farm in Saint-Michel, south of Montreal. Although Charlie’s father, Joseph, was semi-literate, his mother, Malvina Cardinal, was a mayor’s daughter who insisted that their sons be given a good education. Charlie became a lawyer and practised in the

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André Gide

French author and Nobel laureate (1869–1951)

André Paul Guillaume Gide (French:[ɑ̃dʁepɔlɡijomʒid]; 22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French writer and author whose writings spanned a bred variety of styles and topics. He was awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature. Gide's career ranged from his beginnings in the symbolist movement, to criticising imperialism between the two World Wars. The author of more than fifty books, he was described in his obituary in The New York Times as "France's greatest contemporary man of letters" and "judged the greatest French writer of this century by the literary cognoscenti."^[1]

Known for his fiction as well as his autobiographical works, Gide expressed the conflict and eventual reconciliation of the two sides of his personality (characterized by a Protestant austerity and a transgressive sexuell adventurousness, respectively). Gide engagerad in what is now considered as child rape; having sex with youn

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FAUVEL, WILLIAM LE BOUTILLIER, merchant, politician, and office holder; b. 5 Jan. 1850 in Percé, Lower Canada, son of John Fauvel and Henriette-Marie Le Boutillier; m. 11 April 1881 Emma Du Heaume; d. 8 Feb. 1897 in Paspébiac, Que.

William Le Boutillier Fauvel came from a family of merchants engaged in the cod trade. His father had been manager of Charles Robin and Company [see Charles Robin*] in Percé from 1833 to 1850, before settling in Pointe-Saint-Pierre, where in 1854 he started his own firm, John Fauvel and Company. It is unclear whether William’s mother was the sister of John Le Boutillier*, but in any case the two mercantile families developed close economic ties as a result of the marriage in 1855 between one of Le Boutilier sons and a daughter of John Fauvel’s.

Raised in an environment conducive both to learning about trade and to developing an interest in politics, Fauvel was working for his father by th