Réal Ouellet
Réal Ouellet (29 September 1935 – 20 February 2022) was a Canadian writer and academic. Biography. After his studies in psychology and literature at the Université Laval, Ouellet earned a doctorate from the University of Paris in 1963 with a thesis titled "Les relations humaines dans l’œuvre de Saint-Exupéry". That year, he became teaching literature at Laval. He was one of the founders of "" in 1968. Ouellet was a specialist on literature, theatre, and literary representations of New France and the French West Indies in the 17th and 18th Centuries. He was the first president of the "Société  canadienne d’étude du dix-huitième siècle" and organized its congress in 1975 in Quebec City. In 1988, he received a Killam grant in 1988 from the Canada Council. In January 2007 he co-led a symposium titled "Représentation, métissage et pouvoir. La dynamique coloniale des échanges entre Autochtones, Européens et Canadiens" alongside . Ouellet died in Quebec City on 20 February 2022, at the age of 86.