Valentin Jautard ( – 8 June 1787) was a French-born

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lawyer and journalist. Born in

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, He is best known for his welcome of invading American troops in 1775 during the

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, saying "our chains are broken, blissful liberty restores us to ourselves."

Park

Place Valentin-Jautard, a small park in Montreal on Mont-Royal Avenue East, near the building of the

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newspaper, is named after Jautard.

References

External links

* Valentin Jautard's works on Wikisource (French)

Sources

* ALAQ. , dans le site de lALAQ'', 2002 * Nova Doyon. « Valentin Jautard, premier critique littéraire au Québec », Cap-aux-Diamants, no 69 (printemps), 2002, page 55. * Nova Doyon. « L’Académie de Montréal : fiction littéraire ou projet utopique ? », dans ''Mens, Revue d’histoire intellectuelle de l’Amérique française'', vol. 1, no 2, printemps 2001, pages 115 to 140. * Jacques G. Ruelland. ''Figures de la philosophie québécoise à l'époque de la Révolution française : Fleury Mesplet, Pierre du Calvet, Valentin Jautard, Pierre de Sales Laterrière'', Montréal, UQAM, coll. Philosophie québécoise no P-4, 1989, 198 p. * Jacques G. Ruelland et Jean-Paul de Lagrave. ''Valentin Jautard (1736–1787), premier journaliste de langue française au Canada'', Sainte-Foy, Éditions Le Griffon d'argile, 1989, coll. Fleury-Mesplet, 390 p. * Bernard Andrès. �
Le fantasme du champ littéraire dans la Gazette de Montréal (1778–1779)
», in ''Études françaises'', volume 36, number 3, 2000, Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal. 1730s births 1787 deaths Immigrants to New France Lawyers in Quebec {{Canada-journalist-stub