Bertrand Vac

Career Pelletier volunteered for service during the Second World War, and was with the medical corps both during the war and until 1946. He worked in field hospitals behind the front lines in France, particularly during the Battle of Normandy, when he arrived in France as part of the Normandy Invasion.

Pelletier's pen name was developed in France. After the war, Pelletier chose to study surgery in Paris, where his colleagues preferred to call him "Bernard", rather than "Aimé". Vac was chosen as his literary surname because it represented the Hindu God of Speech.

Pelletier wrote Louise Genest in 1950 and a satirical story Saint-Pépin, P.Q. in 1955. The themes of adultery in his early works were groundbreaking at that particular time in the history of Quebec literature. None of his works have been translated from the original French.

Pelletier died in Montreal; his ashes are interred at his ancestral cemetery, located in Sainte-Mélanie, Quebec.