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Cécile Chabot

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Cécile Chabot
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Cécile Chabot in 1945
Born(1907-09-11)11 September 1907
L'Annonciation, Quebec, Canada
Died30 May 1990(1990-05-30) (aged 82)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
EducationÉcole des beaux-arts de Montréal
OccupationsPoet, artist
Writing career
LanguageFrench

Cécile Chabot (11 September 1907 – 30 May 1990) was a Canadian poet and illustrator.

Early life and education

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Cécile Chabot was born on 11 September 1907 at 252, rue L' Annonciation Sud in L'Annonciation, Quebec to merchant Ferdinand Chabot and Alma Dubreuil.[1][2] She was raised in Saint-Césaire,[3][4] and attended Les Religieuses de la Presentation de Marie schools there.[2] Chabot was then educated at École des arts et métiers and later at École des beaux-arts de Montréal.[4] She also studied at the Université de Montréal.[2] After finishing her education, she worked in the archives of the Musée de la province de Québec.[3][4]

In 1948, she began studying at Sorbonne in Paris. While she was in Paris, she used the studio of Robert Bonfils.[1][2]

Career

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Chabot at her Esplanade Avenue residence in Montreal in 1945

Chabot served as the vice-president of the Société des poètes. She was awarded the gold medal by the society in 1929.[4]

She came to prominence with the poem collection Vitrail in 1939, which she illustrated herself with etchings and watercolours. Three years later, in 1942, Chabot published Légende mystique.[5]

Chabot created approximately forty sketches for Radio-canada over four years from 1942 to 1946. In addition to her work with Radio-canada, she served as a publicist for the Association des Amis de l'art from 1944. On 15 June 1948, Chabot officially became a member of the Canadian Writers Society and the Royal Society of Canada and received a medal from the latter in 1964 for her novel Feerie.[3][4]

In 1961, Chabot published the short story Et le chevalvert, followed by Contes du ciel et de la terre the following year.[6]

Many of her poems were inspired by her love of nature and religion, and she often illustrated her poetic collections herself.[4][7] In addition to her poems, Chabot created numerous drawings, etchings and oil paintings.[5] She also maintained a long correspondence with the author Gabrielle Roy after they met in Europe in 1948, with Roy writing over fifty letters to Chabot over twenty years.[1][6]

Death and legacy

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Chabot died in Montreal on 30 May 1990, at the age of 82.[5]

The house where she was born is commemorated in the Rivière-Rouge district of L'Annonciation. Additionally, a library in Sherbrooke is named after her.[1]

References

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  1. 1 2 3 4 "Maison de naissance de Cécile Chabot". Route du Lievre Rouge (in French). Retrieved 30 March 2026.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Creative Canada A Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-century Creative and Performing Artists Volume One. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 1971. p. 56. ISBN 9781442637832.
  3. 1 2 3 "Répertoire numérique du fonds Cécile-Chabot" (PDF). Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (in French). p. 11. Retrieved 30 March 2026.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Hamel, Réginald; Hare, John; Paul, Wyczynski (1989). Dictionnaire des auteurs de langue française en Amérique du Nord (in French). Montreal: Fides. p. 257. ISBN 2762114756.
  5. 1 2 3 Monet Chartrand, Simonne (1990). Pionnières québécoises et regroupements de femmes d'hier à aujourd'hui (in French). Éditions du Remue-ménage. pp. 307–308. ISBN 9782890910942.
  6. 1 2 Roy, Gabrielle; Léger, Ariane; Ricard, François (2005). Femmes de lettres lettres à ses amies, 1945-1978 (in French). Montreal: Boréal. p. 14. ISBN 9782764603239.
  7. ↑ De Grandpre, Pierre (1968). Histoire de la litterature francaise du Quebec (in French). p. 247.
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