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Jean Le Moyne

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The Hon.
Jean Le Moyne
Senator for Rigaud senate division
In office
1982–1988
Appointed byPierre Trudeau
Preceded byCarl Goldenberg
Succeeded byGérald Beaudoin
Personal details
Born(1913-02-17)February 17, 1913
Montreal, Quebec
DiedApril 1, 1996(1996-04-01) (aged 83)
Montreal, Quebec
Political partyLiberal

Jean Le Moyne, OC (February 17, 1913 – April 1, 1996) was a Canadian journalist, researcher, screenwriter and senator.

Born in Montreal, Quebec, in 1961 he wrote Convergences, winner of the 1961 Governor General's Award for French non-fiction. He won the Molson Prize in 1968.

On December 23, 1982 he was appointed to the Senate at the recommendation of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau representing the senatorial division of Rigaud, Quebec. He retired on his 75th birthday on February 17, 1988. He sat as a Liberal.[1]

In 1982, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada "in recognition of his important contribution to Canadian humanities".[2]

References

Further Reading

  • Thibault, G., & Hayward, M. (2014). Jean Le Moyne’s Itinéraire mécanologique: Machine Poetics, Reverie, and Technological Humanism. Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review (221), 56-72.