Solange Chaput-Rolland, (May 14, 1919 – October 31, 2001) was a

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journalist, author, lecturer, politician, and

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. Born in

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, the daughter of Émile Chaput and Rosalie Loranger, she received her education from the Couvent d'Outremont, the Sorbonne and the

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. Her brother, Yves Chaput was the husband of Françoise Poliquin, daughter of Jean Poliquin, grandfather of Jean-Nicolas De Surmont. During the 1950s she worked as a journalist for the CBC with a young

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with whom she remained friends until Sauvé's death. In 1979, she was elected to the

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in a

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in the riding of

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. She was defeated in

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. She was appointed to the Senate in 1988 representing the senatorial division of Mille Isles, Quebec. She sat as a Progressive Conservative and retired in 1994. In 1975, she was made an Officer of the

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. In 1985, she was made an Officer of the

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. In 1941, she married André Rolland.

Electoral record

Selected works

* Chers ennemis (1963, with

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) * Mon pays, Québec ou le Canada? (1966) * Regards 1967: Québec Année Zéro (1968) * Regards 1968: Une ou deux sociétés justes (1969) * Regards 1969: La seconde conquête (1970) * Regards 1970-1971: Les heures sauvages (1972) * De l'unité à la réalité (1981) * Le Mystère Québec (1984) * Et tournons la page... (1989) * Le et l'apaisement (1990) * Léon Dion, hier et demain (1991) * Chère sénateur (1992) * Les Élus et les Déçus (1996)

External links

* *
CBC archives clip where she speaks of her friendship with the late Jeanne Sauvé
*
Fonds Solange Chaput-Rolland (R6637)
at

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