193:. His father, Charles-August Miron, was a successful carpenter-entrepreneur, and his death in 1940 was the decisive event of his son's childhood. The next year, finding herself in a precarious financial situation, Gaston's mother sent her son to study as a scholarship student at a Brothers of the Sacred Heart boarding school near Granby in Montérégie. At Sacred Heart, young Miron's plan was to pursue a career in education as a teaching brother. Upon graduation, however, after working for a year in a school near Montreal, he renounced his vows and planned-for career as a schoolteacher. His long, painful march towards his vocation as a man of letters had begun.
319:. The crushing defeat of the first Quebecois referendum on independence in May 1980 was a bitter disappointment for Miron, as it was for other committed separatists. During the 1980s, Miron travelled widely, especially in France, where he enjoyed old friendships and felt at ease in his language while appreciating the praise his poetry was now receiving. The defeat of the second referendum on Quebecois independence on 30 October 1995, albeit by a narrow margin, was equally disheartening for Miron.
218:, an artisanal publishing company founded by the authors and four of their friends. Hexagone was the first publisher in French Canada dedicated to poetry: Miron would become the central force behind its contribution to Quebecois culture over the next thirty years. Hexagone's editorial line was to establish a "national literature" and put an end to the "poet's alienation" in the society of the time. Miron quickly signed young and innovative poets like
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and sometimes left in his drawer, waiting for the right word or phrase to come to mind, as he sought to perfect them. On 10 June 1957 and 31 March 1958, Miron was a candidate in
Canadian federal elections in the Outremont riding of Montreal for the socialist Co-Operative Commonwealth Federation.
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Beauchemin Bookstore and other book related jobs in Montreal. In his off hours, he read manuscripts and handled the correspondence for his publishing company. In addition, Miron wrote poetry (notably
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Montreal, he became involved in dozens of artistic and political circles based in the cafés around St-Louis Square, where he lived. His flamboyant style and passionate speeches made him a popular figure in the then revitalizing
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in 1970. The book, which alternates between touching love lyrics and painful texts expressing the alienation of French-speaking Québécois, was an instant success. Characterized by the high quality of their poetic expression, poems like
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Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Montreal, but never earned a degree. In 1953, with Olivier Marchand, Miron published his first collection of poems,
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reigned as Quebec premier, and the
Catholic Church dominated the society's popular and literary culture. Miron worked for a time as an organizer and leader of the Catholic youth organization,
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Committed to his people's separation from Canada and to the establishment of an independent French-speaking nation in North
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honoured the memory of Gaston Miron by giving his name to the building that currently hosts the city's arts council offices. The neoclassical building on
Sherbrooke Street faces
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delivered an important lecture, "Miron le
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