Pierre Sévigny
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The Honourable Pierre Sévigny |
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| Member of Parliament for Longueuil | |
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In office 1957–1963 |
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| Preceded by | Auguste Vincent |
| Succeeded by | Jean-Pierre Côté |
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Joseph Pierre Albert Sévigny September 12, 1917 Quebec City, Quebec |
| Died | March 20, 2004 (aged 86) Montreal, Quebec |
| Political party | Progressive Conservative |
| Occupation | contractor, industrialist, real estate agent, military lieutenant colonel |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Joseph Pierre Albert Sévigny, PC, OC, CD, VM, ED (September 12, 1917 – March 20, 2004) was a Canadian soldier, author, politician, and academic. He is best known for his involvement in the Munsinger Affair.
Born in Quebec City, Quebec, the son of Albert Sévigny, the Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons in 1916, he graduated from Université Laval and Columbia University. He briefly attempted to pursue a career in acting, even being given a screen test by MGM in 1935, but instead returned to Canada to work in real estate, construction and in the import-export business. He also wrote fiction for The Saturday Evening Post under the pen name Peter Maple.
Sévigny served in the Canadian Army during World War II, and lost a leg in the Battle of the Rhineland. He was awarded the Virtuti Militari, Poland's highest military decoration, for his involvement in the battle at Hill 262. Along with his Polish comrades of the 1st Polish Armoured Division, he denied access to Panzer divisions trying to break out of the Falaise pocket in August 1944. The action resulted in the encirclement and capture of 50,000 German troops. He also received France's Croix de Guerre and Belgium's Croix de Guerre. After the war he wrote a book Face à l’ennemi about his experiences. It won the Prix Ferrières de l’Académie française in 1948. In 1965, he wrote his second book, This Game of Politics (McClelland and Stewart).
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