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29May

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Claude Goasguen, politician

Claude Goasguen ‑ a French politician who served as a member of the National Assembly for Paris from 1993 to 1995 and again from 1997 until his death in 2020 – died on 28 May 2020 from Covid-19. A member of The Republicans, he also briefly was Minister of Reform of the State, Decentralisation and Citizenship in 1995 under Prime Minister Alain Juppé. Claude Goasguen was born on 12 March 1945 in Toulon, France. He received a Doctorate in Law. From 1976 to 1986, he taught at Paris 13 University, and he served as the Dean of the Law School from 1982 to 1984. From 1986 to 1988, he served as advisor to the Minister of National Education, René Monory, with regards to the links between universities and the private sector, and professional training. From December ...

13May

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Canada, Noteworthy, Profiles

Renée Claude CM, actress & singer

Renée Claude CM ‑ a Canadian actress and singer from Quebec ‑ died on May 12, 2020 due to COVID-19. She was best known as an interpretive singer, particularly of songs by Stéphane Venne, Michel Conte, Georges Brassens and Léo Ferré. She was born Renée Bélanger, in Montreal. She studied piano at the École de musique Vincent-d'Indy, took singing lessons from Alphonse Ledoux, and won a music competition on CKVL radio program Découvertes de Billy Munro in 1955. In 1960 she made her first major television appearance on Clémence DesRochers's Télévision de Radio-Canada variety show Chez Clémence. Around the same era she began performing in Quebec City's boîtes à chanson, specializing in the songs of Ferré, Brassens and Jean-Pierre Ferland. She released her self-titled first album on Distribut...

Claude Lafortune, paper artist, set decorator and TV personality

20Apr

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Claude Lafortune, paper artist, set decorator and TV personality

Claude Lafortune a Canadian paper artist, set decorator and TV personality died in Longueuil, Quebec, aged 83,died on 19 April 2020,after contracting the COVID-19 virus during the COVID-19 pandemic in Quebec. A graduate of the École des beaux-arts de Montréal, Lafortune collaborated on many graphic design projects before he became famous for his paper art. He had an exhibit devoted to his paper art work—titled Colle, papier, ciseaux—at the Musée des cultures du monde in Nicolet, Quebec. The exhibition has traveled to Longueuil, Montreal, Terrebonne, Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Lachine, Chicoutimi, Bonaventure, La Malbaie and New Brunswick.

13Apr

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Claude Beauchamp, journalist

Claude Beauchamp ‑ a journalist, publisher, and political activist in the Canadian province of Quebec ‑ died on April 12, 2020 days after contracting COVID-19 and years after developing a chronic illness. Beauchamp began his career as a financial writer for La Presse and served as assistant publisher and editor-in-chief of Le Soleil in the late 1970s. He became president and general manager of Publications Les Affaires Inc. in 1980, one year after the company purchased the business journal Les Affaires. Beauchamp relaunched the journal as a tabloid and later oversaw the company's purchase of smaller, niche-oriented papers such as Quebec Construction, Revue Commerce, Quebec Yachting, VeliMag, Voile Libre, Ski Quebec, and Sports Marketing Canada. Corporate...