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Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Young_Trudeau > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Young_Trudeau.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Trudeau > Source revision: 1314731019 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|2006 biography}}{{Infobox book | image = YoungTrudeauNemnilivre.jpg | author = Max Nemni and Monique Nemni | isbn = 9780771067495 | pub_date = May 17, 2006 | pages = 352 }} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{italic title}}'''''Young Trudeau: 1919-1944: Son of Quebec, Father of Canada''''' (short title: ''Young Trudeau'') is the intellectual [biography](/source/biography) of [Pierre Trudeau](/source/Pierre_Trudeau), the former [Prime Minister of Canada](/source/Prime_Minister_of_Canada), that deals with his parents, childhood, and education in the province of [Quebec](/source/Quebec) from his birth in 1919 until November 1944 when he left to study at [Harvard University](/source/Harvard_University). Published in 2006 by [Douglas Gibson Books](/source/McClelland_and_Stewart) ({{ISBN|0-7710-6749-6}}), the book was written by retired [professor](/source/professor)s [Max](/source/Max_Nemni) and [Monique Nemni](/source/Monique_Nemni), friends and admirers of Pierre Trudeau whom he had convinced to take over as editors of ''[Cité Libre](/source/Cit%C3%A9_Libre)''. Max and Monique Nemni spent most of their working lives in the [province of Quebec](/source/province_of_Quebec). The authors have both had numerous writings published in [academic](/source/Academic_publishing) publications in both the English and [French language](/source/French_language)s. ''Young Trudeau'' is based on the large collection of private papers and personal diaries of Pierre Trudeau which he gave the authors in 1995 to write his intellectual biography and which had never before been made public. The book's back cover states that what Trudeau was taught at [College Jean-de-Brebeuf](/source/College_Jean-de-Brebeuf) and the [University of Montreal](/source/University_of_Montreal), was that: :"[democracy](/source/democracy) was bad and that [fascism](/source/fascism) -- as represented by [Mussolini](/source/Benito_Mussolini) and [Pétain](/source/Philippe_P%C3%A9tain) -- was good. Thus, even as a young man of twenty-three, Trudeau was ignoring the [war in Europe](/source/World_War_II) and plotting a revolution to take Quebec out of Canada. The picture that emerges is of a [Quebec elite](/source/Quebec_elite) that was raised to be pro-fascist, and where [Nazi](/source/Nazi) atrocities were dismissed as [English](/source/English_Canada) (Canadian) [propaganda](/source/propaganda)." The book won the [Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing](/source/Shaughnessy_Cohen_Prize_for_Political_Writing) in 2006. ==Studies at College Jean-de-Brebeuf== The Quebec government abolished the [Ministry of Education](/source/Ministry_of_Education_(Quebec)) in 1875 to submit to the [ultramontane](/source/Ultramontanism) [Roman Catholic](/source/Roman_Catholic) [clergy](/source/clergy) which considered education the domain of the family and the Church, not the state. (p. 31) The result was that only private secondary schools gave access to French [colleges](/source/colleges) and [universities](/source/University) and the Catholic Church controlled the French universities, and ran the [orphanage](/source/orphanage)s, [hospital](/source/hospital)s, and shelters for the [aged](/source/Old_age). (p. 31) The book recounts the influences of Trudeau's [Roman Catholic](/source/Roman_Catholic) upbringing and education at the [Jesuit](/source/Jesuit) owned and run [College Jean-de-Brebeuf](/source/College_Jean-de-Brebeuf) in [Montreal](/source/Montreal) where students were taught that [French-Canadian](/source/French-Canadian)s enjoyed a [moral](/source/moral) [superiority](/source/Superior_(hierarchy)). (p. 16 – Quote from:[Clarkson, Stephen](/source/Stephen_Clarkson) and [McCall, Christina](/source/Christina_McCall) ''Trudeau and Our Times Vols 1 & 2'' p.38 [McClelland & Stewart](/source/McClelland_%26_Stewart) (1997) {{ISBN|0-7710-5405-X}})). The writings of the revered priest [Lionel Groulx](/source/Lionel_Groulx) also espoused this idea of ethnic superiority. His pedagogical novel, ''L'Appel de la race'' (The Call of Race) taught that "the children of ethnically [mixed marriage](/source/Interracial_marriage)s suffer from a form of [schizophrenia](/source/schizophrenia) because they are inhabited by two different souls." A character in Father Groulx's book exclaims: "So it is really true that the mixing of races produces cerebral disorders." (p. 15) The book shows through Trudeau's own written words that what he was taught was unquestioned obedience to the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church. Through priests in local churches and those in charge of the [French language](/source/French_language) education system, the Church played an unparalleled role in creating [Quebec's French elite](/source/Quebec_elite). (p. 33) In 2000, [René Latourelle](/source/Ren%C3%A9_Latourelle), a priest who taught at College Jean-de Brebeuf, published ''Quel avenir pour le Christianisme?'' in which he said (p. 16/17) that "The church acted as a true dictatorship over consciences."[Latourelle, René](/source/Ren%C3%A9_Latourelle). Quel avenir pour le Christianisme? p.16/17 (2000) Éditions Guérin {{ISBN|2-7601-5711-3}}. At College Jean-de Brebeuf, "Nationalism and religion together constituted the combined fundamental values that infused all the life of the college." (p. 46) [Antisemitism](/source/Antisemitism) was a part of college teachings and the august priest [Lionel Groulx](/source/Lionel_Groulx) espoused his ''l'achat chez nous'' policy that warned [French Canadians](/source/French_Canadians) not to shop at [Jew](/source/Jew)ish-owned stores. (p. 58). Pierre Trudeau himself fully subscribed to these theories and wrote a vehemently anti-Semitic play titled ''Dupés'' (meaning "We've been had!"). His diary records that the seven-character play was "performed on May 16, 1938 at College Jean-de-Brebeuf before students and parents with great success." (p. 58) ==References == {{Pierre Trudeau}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Young Trudeau: Son Of Quebec, Father Of Canada, 1919-1944}} Category:2006 non-fiction books Category:Culture of Quebec Category:Education in Quebec Category:Biographies about politicians Category:Books about politics of Canada Category:Pierre Trudeau Category:Books about prime ministers of Canada Category:Canadian political books Category:Cultural depictions of Pierre Trudeau --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Young Trudeau](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Trudeau) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Trudeau?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.