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Jacques Ferron was born in Louiseville , Quebec , the son of Joseph-Alphonse Ferron and Adrienne Caron. On March 5 , 1931 , his mother passed away. He attended Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf but was expelled in 1936 . He continued his education at Collège Saint-Laurent and then was readmitted at Jean-de-Brébeuf, only to be expelled again. In September 1941 , he was accepted at Université Laval where he studied medicine, and on July 22 , 1943 , he married a fellow student, Magdeleine Thérien whom he divorced in 1949 . In 1945 , he joined the Canadian army as a medic. He trained in British Columbia and Ontario and after that was sent to Quebec and New Brunswick as a medic. When relieved of duty in 1946 , he settled in Rivière-Madeleine , Quebec . In 1947 , his father died. In 1948 , he returned to Montréal. In 1949 , he moved to Longueuil , Quebec and his first book, ''L'ogre'', was published. In 1951 , he began a 30-year collaboration with "L'Information médicale et paramédicale". On June 28 , 1952 , he married Madeleine Lavalée. In 1954 he became an important member of the "Congrès Canadien pour la Paix" ( Canadian Peace Congress ). In 1959 he helped in the foundation of the magazine ''Situations''. In 1960 , with the help of Raoul Roy, he created ''L'Action socialiste pour l'indépendance du Québec''. In 1962 , he received the Governor General's Award For French Fiction for his book ''Contes du pays incertain''. In 1963 he founded the Parti Rhinocéros , which he described as "an intellectual Guerrilla party". He also began to write for the magazine '' Parti Pris ''. In 1969 , he became a member of the Parti Québécois . In 1977 , the Quebec government awarded him the Prix Athanase-David . He was named an honorary member of the '' Union Des écrivains Québécois '' in 1981 . He died in 1985 at his home in St-Lambert , Quebec , aged 64. |
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