biography
pronunciation:
[luhvek]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1922–87)
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| biography:
| Journalist, and premier of Quebec, SE Canada, born in Campbellton, New Brunswick, Canada. A war correspondent and pioneer on television news, he was elected to the Quebec National Assembly as a Liberal in 1960. He served in three cabinet positions until he resigned in 1968 and founded the Parti Québecois, whose main objective became Quebec sovereignty and the creation of a new form of association with Canada. Levesque was elected premier in 1976, and again in 1981. The Parti Québecois was not able to prevail in a 1980 referendum on sovereignty-association, but passed Bill 101, which formalized the status of French as the official language of Quebec. His government was defeated in 1985. |
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