Solange Chaput-Rolland
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Solange Chaput-Rolland, OQ (May 14, 1919 – November 1, 2001) was a Canadian journalist, author, lecturer, politician, and Senator.
Born in Montreal, the daughter of Émile Chaput and Rosalie Loranger, she received her education from the Couvent d'Outremont, the Sorbonne and the Institut Catholique de Paris.
During the 1950's she worked as a journalist for the CBC with a young Jeanne Sauvé with whom she remained friends until Sauvé's death.
In 1979, she was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in a by-election in the riding of Prevost. She was defeated in 1981.
She was appointed to the Senate in 1988 representing the senatorial division of Mille Isles, Quebec. She sat as a Progressive Conservative and retired in 1994.
In 1975, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 1985, she was made an Officer of the National Order of Quebec.
In 1941, she married André Rolland.
[edit] Selected works
- Chers ennemis (1963)
- Mon pays, Québec ou le Canada? (1966)
- Regards 1967: Québec Année Zéro (1968)
- Regards 1968: Une ou deux sociétés justes (1969)
- Regards 1969: La seconde conquête (1970)
- Regards 1970-1971: Les heures sauvages (1972)
- De l'unité à la réalité (1981)
- Le Mystère Québec (1984)
- Et tournons la page... (1989)
- Le Tourment et l'apaisement (1990)
- Léon Dion, hier et demain (1991)
- Chère sénateur (1992)
- Les Élus et les Déçus (1996)
[edit] External links
- Parliament of Canada biography
- Assemblée nationale du Québec biography (French)
- CBC archives clip where she speak of her friendship with the late Jeanne Sauvé