Aurore Dessureault-Descôteaux
Aurore Dessureault-Descôteaux (May 10, 1926 – April 24, 2015) was a writer in Quebec, Canada. She was perhaps best known as the author of the téléroman Entre chien et loup.[1]
She was born Aurore Dessureault in Saint-Narcisse. She married Rosario Descôteaux, who died in 1999. The couple had eight children.[2] Her son Gilles is an actor.[3]
She wrote three plays: Marche par-là Graziela, Du foin pour les Mongrain and La revanche de Graziela, a novel Entre Chien et Loup and a history of her birthplace, St-Narcisse, Histoire du Troisième Rang – En suivant les roulières. She also helped establish the first municipal library at Grand-Mère.[1] During the 1990s, Dessureault-Descôteaux published a column "Le Signe des temps" in Le Nouvelliste.[2]
In 1969, she was named Madame Châtelaine by the magazine Châtelaine.[2]
Dessureault-Descôteaux died in Grand-Mère at the age of 88.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "L'auteure d' Entre Chien et Loup est décédée". Hebdo du St-Maurice (in French). April 28, 2015.
- ^ a b c d "Décès d'Aurore Dessureault-Descôteaux". Le Nouvelliste (in French). April 28, 2015.
- ^ "Saga familiale d'un début de siècle". Journal de Montréal (in French). July 16, 2014.
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