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Françoise Labbé

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Françoise Labbé CQ (1933–2001) was an artist and arts administrator born in Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec.

She earned a diploma from the École des beaux-arts de Québec in 1955, and studied printmaking with S.W. Hayter in Paris.

Labbé founded the Musée d'art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul (formerly Centre d'exposition de Baie-Saint-Paul) in 1979, and acted as General Director until her death in 2001.[1]

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  1. ^ "Le Centre d'exposition de Baie-Saint-Paul devient un musée | Nathalie Côté | Le Soleil". La Presse (in Canadian French). Retrieved 2017-03-11.
  2. ^ a b "Françoise Labbé (1933 – 2001)". National Order of Quebec (in French).