Pauline Julien
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Pauline Julien, Template:Post-nominals (May 23, 1928Template:DashOctober 1, 1998), nicknamed "La Renarde",<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> was a singer, songwriter, actress, feminist activist and Quebec sovereigntist.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Born in Trois-Rivières, Quebec,<ref name=":0">Christian Rioux and Betty Nygaard King. "Pauline Julien". The Canadian Encyclopedia. January 29, 2008 (original; updated March 4, 2015).</ref> Julien was the companion of the poet and Québec provincial MLA Gérald Godin, another Trifluvian and sovereignist. Julien performed pro-independence songs in Montréal clubs as early as 1964. In 1965 she hosted the CBC television series Mon pays, mes chansons.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> At the CBC she also collaborated and recorded with pianist Herbert Ruff,<ref name="Helmer2014">Template:Cite book</ref> and performed on the program On Stage.<ref name="Corporation1968">Template:Cite book</ref>
In 1970, Julien and Godin were arrested during the October Crisis and were released eight days later without charge.<ref name=":0" />
Death and legacy
In 1994, France decorated her with the title Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres. Julien was made a Chevalière de l'Ordre national du Québec.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Julien developed aphasia.<ref name=":0" /> She died in early October 1998 in Montreal, from suicide.<ref name=":0" />
She was the subject of the 2018 documentary film Pauline Julien, Intimate and Political (Pauline Julien, intime et politique).<ref>Éric Moreault, "«Pauline Julien, intime et politique»: portrait d’une insoumise". Le Soleil, September 20, 2018.</ref>
Discography
- 1962 - Enfin Pauline Julien
- 1963 - Pauline Julien
- 1964 - Pauline Julien à la Comédie canadienne
- 1965 – Pauline Julien chante Raymond Levesque
- 1966 – Pauline Julien chante Boris Vian
- 1967 – Suite québécoise
- 1969 – Comme je crie… comme je chante… (textes de Gilbert Langevin)
- 1971 – Fragile
- 1972 – Au milieu de ma vie, peut-être la veille de....
- 1973 – Aller voir, vous avez des ailes
- 1974 – Licence complète
- 1975 – En scène
- 1976 – Tout ou rien (Récital Brecht)
- 1978 – Les 7 péchés capitaux
- 1978 – Femmes de paroles
- 1979 – Mes amies d'filles (Kebec Disc KD-949)
- 1980 – Fleur de peau
- 1984 – Où peut-on vous toucher ?
- 1993 – Pauline Julien (Collection Québec Love)
- 1996 – Pauline Julien
- 1997 – Brecht & Weill
- 1998 – Au temps des boîtes à chansons
- 1998 – Les années de la Butte à Mathieu
Movies
- 1964 : Fabienne sans son Jules
- 1964 : The Earth to Drink (La Terre à boire) : Diane
- 1967 : Between Salt and Sweet Water (Entre la mer et l'eau douce) : Elle-même
- 1971 : La Nuit de la poésie 27 mars 1970
- 1973 : The Death of a Lumberjack (La Mort d'un bûcheron) : Charlotte Juillet
- 1974 : Bulldozer : Mignonne Galarneau
See also
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- 1928 births
- 1998 suicides
- 1998 deaths
- Songwriters from Quebec
- Singers from Quebec
- French-language singers of Canada
- Knights of the National Order of Quebec
- Canadian women singer-songwriters
- Canadian stage actresses
- Musicians from Trois-Rivières
- Suicides in Quebec
- October Crisis
- Canadian feminists
- Quebec sovereigntists
- 20th-century Canadian actresses
- Canadian feminist musicians
- Canadian women's rights activists
- Columbia Records artists
- 20th-century Canadian women singers
- 20th-century Canadian singer-songwriters