Léandre Bergeron

Léandre Bergeron (; 1933 – July 31, 2025) was a Canadian writer, historian and linguist.

Early life Léandre Bergeron was born in St. Lupicin, Manitoba, in 1933, the eighth child of his French mother and French-Canadian father.

After first completing a Bachelor of Arts at the French-language Université de Saint-Boniface, he studied at the University of Manitoba in 1956, graduating with a Bachelor of Education. For a short time afterwards, he was a teacher at a high school. Having received a scholarship from the French government in 1959, he left his teaching position and travelled to France to study at Aix-Marseille University, where he completed his doctorate on Paul Valéry.

Career After returning to Canada, he became an assistant professor at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario. Three years later, he taught at Sir George Williams University in Montreal, modern-day Concordia University. He translated a few of these works into English, seeking to expose the anglophone world to the Québécois perspective and provide an answer to the question "What does Quebec want?".

In 1971, Bergeron wrote the script for Histoire du Québec, a graphic novel drawn by Robert Lavaill.

Later life and death Bergeron later lived in western Quebec in the region of Abitibi-Temiscamingue.