Pierre Baillargeon

Background

Mr. Baillargeon was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on September 10, 1916. He was a son of Oliva (a political organizer) and Alphonsine (Mercier) Baillargeon.

Education

Pierre Baillargeon attended College Jean-de-Brebeuf, Montreal, and studied medicine at Universite de Poitiers, France.

Career

Mr. Baillargeon was a founder and director of Amerique francaise (a literary publication) in 1941-1944. He taught Latin and French in Vezelay and Normandy, France. From 1948 to 1960 Pierre Baillargeon served as a journalist in France, La patrie, and Le petit journal between 1950 and 1951.

Since 1956 he acted as a translator at Editions Robert Laffont. During 1957-1958 Mr. Baillargeon held the post of a secretary to ambassador at Canadian Embassy, Paris. Then he acted as a literary consultant, Reader's Digest, Paris, in 1956-1959. From 1960 till 1962 he was an editor of Bell Canada. And during the period of 1962-1966 Mr. Baillargeon worked as a translator for Canadien National and concurrently was a writer. He was a former president of the Societe des Ecrivains Canadiens.

Military service: worked as a translator for the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II.

Pierre Baillargeon died while undergoing heart surgery, August 15, 1967, in Rochester, Minnesota.

Achievements

• Pierre Baillargeon was known as a founder of Amerique francaise.
  
  As a French-Canadian journalist, poet, and essayist, Pierre Baillargeon was an influential writer in the 1940s and 1950s, and was praised for the compactness of his writings, his polished use of language, and his concern for literary and social issues.

Works

• book

  • Congreso Internacional sobre lenguas neolatinas en la comunicación especializada (Estudios Linguisticos Y Literarios) (Spanish Edition)

    (La vitalidad de una lengua no sólo se mide por su cantida...)

  • Etude En Rouge (Le Livre de Poche) (French Edition)

    (Un homme est trouve mort dans une maison inhabitee, au co...)

  • La Neige et Le Feu

    (La Neige et Le Feu [Baillargeon Pierre])

Membership

• elected fellow

  Royal Society of Canada , Canada

  1962

• PEN , Canada

• Press Club , Canada

Connections

Mr. Baillargeon married Jacqueline Mabit (a writer) in July (one source says August), 1939. The had 4 daughters: Lise (1940), Jeanne (1943), Mireille (1945), Claude (1949).

Father:

Oliva Baillargeon

Mother:

Alphonsine (Mercier) Baillargeon

Wife:

Jacqueline Mabit

Daughter:

Lise Baillargeon

Daughter:

Jeanne Baillargeon

Daughter:

Mireille Baillargeon

Daughter:

Claude Baillargeon

References

• Entre la neige et le feu: Pierre Baillargeon, écrivain montréalais (Vie des lettres québécoises) (French Edition) Entre la neige et le feu: Pierre Baillargeon, écrivain montréalais (Vie des lettres québécoises) (French Edition) [André Gaulin]
• Japon et la guerre. Traduit de l'anglais par Pierre Baillargeon. Japon et la guerre. Traduit de l'anglais par Pierre Baillargeon. [Hugh. Byas]