Jacques Godbout

Jacques Godbout, born in Montreal in 1933, great-nephew of the premier Adélard Godbout, was a pupil of the Jesuits at Brébeuf and then at the Université de Montréal. After teaching for three years in Ethiopia, he joined the National Film Board in 1958, where he directed some thirty films, including four fiction features. Co-founder of the journal Liberté in 1959 and a founding member of the Mouvement laïque de langue française, he became in 1977 the first president of the Union des écrivains québécois.

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