Quebec author, journalist and columnist Denise Bombardier died Tuesday morning at the age of 82, reports say.
Bombardier died of complications following medical examinations, according to such Québecor media properties as the Journal de jmontreal for which she worked.
Bombardier had been a fixture of the Quebec media landscape for decades. Until recently, she was a columnist for the Journal de Montréal. Her Last column was published at the end of May.
Bombardier was in love with Quebec and the French language,Quebec Premier François Legault said in a tweet. He called her brilliant, courageous, funny.
Born in Montreal in 1941 into a modest family, Bombardier studied political science at the Université de Montréal. She then went to the Sorbonne in the 1970s to earn a doctorate in sociology.
During her long career, she hosted a number of programs on Radio Canada, including Le Point, Trait d’union and Aujourd’hui dimanche. She contributed to several other Quebec and French media over the years, including Le Monde, L’Express, Le Devoir and L’Actualité.
Bombardier wrote about 20 novels and essays.
She was named to the Ordre du Québec in 2000 and admitted to the Order of Canada in 2015. She was also made an Officer of the Order of the French Legion of Honour in 2009.
Bombardier “was a great Montrealer who had the courage of her convictions, Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante Said Tuesday in a tweet,Her departure is a shock for all of Quebec.
We will deeply miss our great Denise Bombardier, known to all Quebecers for her verve, Québecor chief executive Pierre Karl Péladeau tweeted,He called her ,a woman of opinion and courage.
Bombardier ,was a monument in Quebec’s cultural, political and intellectual arena, implacably rigorous in her convictions but capable of evolution and also of that sometimes brave spontaneity that nourishes everyone’s thinking, added Bloc Québécois Leader ,Yves Francois Blanchet.
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Bombardier died of complications following medical examinations, according to such Québecor media properties as the Journal de jmontreal for which she worked.
Bombardier had been a fixture of the Quebec media landscape for decades. Until recently, she was a columnist for the Journal de Montréal. Her Last column was published at the end of May.
Bombardier was in love with Quebec and the French language,Quebec Premier François Legault said in a tweet. He called her brilliant, courageous, funny.
Born in Montreal in 1941 into a modest family, Bombardier studied political science at the Université de Montréal. She then went to the Sorbonne in the 1970s to earn a doctorate in sociology.
During her long career, she hosted a number of programs on Radio Canada, including Le Point, Trait d’union and Aujourd’hui dimanche. She contributed to several other Quebec and French media over the years, including Le Monde, L’Express, Le Devoir and L’Actualité.
Bombardier wrote about 20 novels and essays.
She was named to the Ordre du Québec in 2000 and admitted to the Order of Canada in 2015. She was also made an Officer of the Order of the French Legion of Honour in 2009.
Bombardier “was a great Montrealer who had the courage of her convictions, Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante Said Tuesday in a tweet,Her departure is a shock for all of Quebec.
We will deeply miss our great Denise Bombardier, known to all Quebecers for her verve, Québecor chief executive Pierre Karl Péladeau tweeted,He called her ,a woman of opinion and courage.
Bombardier ,was a monument in Quebec’s cultural, political and intellectual arena, implacably rigorous in her convictions but capable of evolution and also of that sometimes brave spontaneity that nourishes everyone’s thinking, added Bloc Québécois Leader ,Yves Francois Blanchet.
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