Jean-Louis Roux
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The Honourable Jean-Louis Roux CC, CQ |
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| 26th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec | |
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In office August 8, 1996 – January 30, 1997 |
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| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Governor General | Roméo LeBlanc |
| Premier | Lucien Bouchard |
| Preceded by | Martial Asselin |
| Succeeded by | Lise Thibault |
| Senator for Mille Isles, Quebec | |
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In office August 31, 1994 – August 8, 1996 |
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| Appointed by | Jean Chrétien |
| Preceded by | Solange Chaput-Rolland |
| Succeeded by | Léonce Mercier |
| Personal details | |
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May 18, 1923 Montreal, Quebec |
| Died | November 28, 2013 (aged 90) Montreal, Quebec |
| Alma mater | Université de Montréal |
| Profession | Playwright, entertainer, politician |
Jean-Louis Roux, CC CQ (May 18, 1923 – November 28, 2013) was a Canadian politician, entertainer and playwright who was briefly the 34th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec.
Born in Montreal, Quebec, he originally studied medicine at the Université de Montréal, but gave it up to pursue acting. After travelling and performing in New York City and Paris he returned to Montreal and helped create the Théâtre du Nouveau Monde and became a frequent actor in and director of its productions for the next several years. He also turned to writing and wrote successful plays, radio dramas, and television shows.
His greatest fame comes from his role on La famille Plouffe, a very successful Quebec situation comedy. Roux served as President of the Canadian Conference of the Arts from 1968 through 1970. In 1994 he was appointed to the Senate and remained there until resigning in 1996. A fierce federalist, great controversy arose when he compared Quebec separatists to Nazis.
Upon leaving the Senate he was, at age 73, the oldest person ever appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec on August 8, 1996. Controversy reemerged when pictures were found showing Roux wearing a swastika on his lab coat in protest of the proposal to invoke conscription for service in World War II, and evidence emerged that he had participated in a 1942 protest against conscription in which some protesters, but not Roux, smashed the windows of some Jewish-owned businesses. Roux served (training) in the Canadian Army from 1942 to 1946; he had no known ties to fascist or anti-Semitic groups, and had in fact been a quite outspoken opponent of Nazism and anti-Semitism throughout his career, sometimes even refusing to accept roles in productions which he considered to include anti-Jewish stereotypes.
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