Maurice Le Noblet Duplessis, popularly known as "Le Chef", was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 16th premier of Quebec. A conservative, nationalist, populist, anti-communist, anti-un
Duplessis in 1947
Samuel Genest, president of the Association canadienne-française d'éducation de l'Ontario (1932–33), a Franco-Ontarian advocacy organization, uncle of Maurice Duplessis
Richard-Stanislas Cooke, mayor of Trois-Rivières (1896–98), Liberal MLA for Trois-Rivières, uncle of Maurice Duplessis
William-Pierre Grant, Liberal MLA for Champlain, uncle of Maurice Duplessis
The Grande Noirceur refers to the regime of conservative policies undertaken by the governing body of Quebec Premier Maurice Le Noblet Duplessis from 1936 to 1939 and from 1944 to 1959.
Maurice Duplessis
…of Duplessis Orphans and the apparent backwardness of his model of development were also subject of criticism. His critics label his tenure as the Grande Noirceur ('Great Darkness'), a term popularized during the Quiet Revolution in the 1960s. Since the 1990s, academics have revisited Duplessism and concluded…
The Crucifix at the National Assembly