« Je me souviens »

According to Delisle’s thesis, Lionel Groulx, the key figure in modern Quebec nationalism, was swayed by the anti-Semitic and ethnocentric ideologies of Charles Maurras and the French Far-Right between the First and Second World Wars. Le Devoir, the renowned Montréal daily followed Groulx’s ideological direction in paying tribute to the fascist dictators of the time – Salazar, Franco, Mussolini and Pétain – and becoming a voice of hate against the Jews. There is no doubt that these revelations still reverberate within Quebec’s nationalist community.

We go back in time to hear testimonies from people who lived through these decades but also from historians and intellectuals who examined this dark period, sometimes drawing different conclusions. The defense of Delisle’s doctoral dissertation at Laval University became a cause célèbre…