Denise Bombardier

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Denise Bombardier
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Bombardier in 2012
Born(1941-01-18)January 18, 1941
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
DiedJuly 4, 2023(2023-07-04) (aged 82)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
NationalityCanadian
Occupations
  • Journalist
  • essayist
  • novelist
  • media personality
Years active1975–2023

Denise Bombardier

Radio-Canada
for over 30 years.

Bombardier was a defender of the international

Francophonie and often invited by Bernard Pivot to discuss the psyche of the French and the situation of the French language in France
.

Biography

Denise Bombardier obtained a

Sorbonne
.

Bombardier began her professional career as a research assistant on the Radio-Canada television program Aujourd'hui. Starting in 1975 she hosted a number of programs such as Présent international, Hebdo-dimanche, Noir sur blanc (1979–1983), Le Point and Entre les lignes. She hosted Trait-d'union from 1987 to 1988, and participated on Aujourd'hui dimanche (1988–1991) and L'Envers de la médaille.

Noir sur blanc was the first

public affairs program to be hosted by a woman in Quebec. There Bombardier interviewed Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Trudeau, novelist Georges Simenon, Prime Minister of Israel Golda Meir, President of France Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and his successor François Mitterrand
.

In 1999, she hosted and produced the science program Les Années lumières on Radio-Canada radio.

Bombardier wrote a number of articles in the press, some of which were controversial. Her articles appeared in

L'Actualité
. She also wrote La Voix de la France (1975), Une enfance à l'eau bénite (1985), Aimez-moi les uns les autres (1999), Nos chères amies (2008), and L'énigmatique Céline Dion (2009).

In 2003, she was fired[

Radio-Canada for engaging in a debate on same-sex marriage against Louis Godbout, spokesperson for the Quebec Gay Archives, during an interview-format segment of Le Point, an evening information show. She has been scathing about reality television programs, especially Quebec's Star Académie
.

In 2007, Bombardier wrote the song "La diva" for

Céline Dion, included on the album D'elles. She also followed Céline Dion during her Taking Chances World Tour
as research for her book L'énigmatique Céline Dion.

Bombardier died on July 4, 2023, following a brief battle with cancer. She was 82.[2]

She was married three times. She left her first husband in 1970 for an affair with producer

Radio-Canada, marrying him in 1973. In 1985 on a trip to Paris, she was introduced to then-Canadian ambassador Lucien Bouchard. She left her husband, flew back to Paris and moved into the Canadian embassy with her young son. After six months, she returned to Montreal and her husband. Within a year, the couple split again. She finally found love with Irishman James "Jim" Jackson, a professor of French literature from Dublin.[3] She is survived by one son, Guillaume Sylvestre
and two grandchildren.

Views

In 1990, during a television confrontation on a French book programme "Apostrophes", Bombardier said of the writer Gabriel Matzneff: "Some older men like to attract little children with sweets. Mr Matzneff does it with his reputation."

Bombardier added, "How did they do afterward, these young girls?"[4]

At the time, she was insulted in the press by Josyane Savigneau.[5][6] But, in January 2020, writer and editor Vanessa Springora "publishes a book, Le Consentement, a memoir of having been sexually abused by Matzneff between the ages of 14 and 16, when he was more than three times her age. It sparks an international furore, and Matzneff, driven from Paris, takes refuge on the Italian Riviera. The Paris prosecutor’s office opens an investigation after an 'analysis' of the book. Matzneff is set to stand trial in September this year," reports the Guardian.[4]

In 2019, Bombardier wrote the column "The Decline of the Whites." She started by noting the demographic fact that in many US cities, whites are already in the minority, and she stated that by 2050, in such countries as Canada, New Zealand and the US, whites could become a minority group.[7][8]

Bibliography

  • La Voix de la France (1975)
  • Une enfance à l'eau bénite (1985)
  • Le mal de l'âme (with Claude Saint-Laurent, 1989)
  • Tremblement de cœur (1990)
  • La déroute des sexes (1993)
  • Nos hommes (1995)
  • Aimez-moi les uns les autres (1999)
  • Lettre ouverte aux Français qui se croient le nombril du monde (2000)
  • Propos d'une moraliste (2003)
  • Et quoi encore! (2004)
  • Sans complaisance (2005)
  • Nos chères amies (2008)
  • L'énigmatique Céline Dion (2009)
  • L'Anglais (2012)
  • Une vie sans peur et sans regret. Mémoires (2019)

Selected filmography

  • Présent international
  • Hebdo-dimanche
  • Noir sur blanc
  • Point
  • Entre les lignes.
  • Trait-d'union (1987–1988)
  • Aujourd'hui dimanche (1988–1991)
  • L'Envers de la médaille
  • Parlez-moi des hommes, parlez-moi des femmes (2001–2002)

Awards and recognition

In media

Bombardier championed Next Episode by Hubert Aquin (translation of Prochain épisode by Sheila Fischman) in Canada Reads 2003. In the 2007 edition of Canada Reads, an "all-star" competition pitting the five winning advocates from previous years against each other, Bombardier returned to champion Gabrielle Roy's novel Children of My Heart.

References

  1. ^ "Popular Quebec TV host Denise Bombardier spoke out against immigration and gay marriage". 6 July 2023 – via www.theglobeandmail.com.
  2. ^ "Quebec columnist and author Denise Bombardier has died at age 82". Montreal Gazette. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
  3. ^ "Popular Quebec TV host Denise Bombardier spoke out against immigration and gay marriage". The Globe and Mail. 6 July 2023. Retrieved 15 August 2023.
  4. ^ a b "Consent by Vanessa Springora review – a memoir of lost adolescence". the Guardian. 11 February 2021.
  5. ^ Child sex scandal sparks soul-searching in France, https://www.ft.com, January 10 2020.
  6. ^ "When sexual abuse was called seduction: France confronts its past". BBC News. 19 January 2020. Retrieved 2 November 2020.
  7. ^ Bombardier, Denise. "Le déclin des Blancs". Le Journal de Montréal. Retrieved 2 November 2020.
  8. ^ "Will 2019 be the year of white backlash in Canada?". rabble.ca. 14 January 2019. Retrieved 2 November 2020.
  9. ^ "Order of Canada Appointments". The Governor General of Canada His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston. Governor General of Canada. Retrieved 31 December 2015.

External links

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