André D'Allemagne

André D'Allemagne (1929 – February 1, 2001) was a Quebec teacher, political observer and commentator, essayist and translator. He was one of the early militants of the contemporary Quebec independence movement.

Born in Montreal, he studied at Collège Stanislas in Montreal, a Roman Catholic private school and the most elite institution of its kind in Quebec. He went on to study at McGill University and the Université de Montréal, where he obtained degrees in linguistics and political science. He was first involved in the Quebec independence movement through the Alliance laurentienne. Opposed to its right-wing tendencies, he left to become in 1960 the cofounder and first president of the Rassemblement pour l'indépendance nationale (RIN). This organization would become a political party in 1963. In 1968, under the impulsion of its then-president Pierre Bourgault, it dissolved itself and had its members join the then-fledging Parti Québécois through entryism.

Bibliography

*"Le Colonialisme au Québec" (1966)
*"Le Capitalisme et la Confédération. Aux sources du conflit Canada-Québec (1760-1873)" (1972)
*"La Capitulation tranquille. Les «multinationales», pouvoir politique parallèle?" (1972)
*"Le R.I.N. de 1960 à 1963. Étude d'un groupe de pression au Québec" (1974)
*"Le presque pays" (1998)

References

* [http://www.memoireduquebec.com/wiki/index.php?title=D%27Allemagne_%28Andr%C3%A9%29. "D'Allemagne (André)"] in "La Mémoire du Québec"

See also

*Quebec sovereignty movement
*Quebec nationalism
*Politics of Quebec