Françoise Gaudet-Smet, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian journalist
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Place of Birth: Centre-du-Québec, Quebec, Canada
About Françoise Gaudet-Smet
- Françoise Gaudet-Smet (October 26, 1902 – September 4, 1986) was a Canadian writer living in Quebec. The daughter of Alexandre Gaudet and Flore Bourgeois, she was born Françoise Gaudet in Sainte-Eulalie.
- She attended primary school there, secondary school at the convent of the Sisters of the Assumption and continued her education at the École normale de Nicolet.
- After completing her education, she worked in her father's business.She began work as a journalist around 1926.
- In 1934, she was secretary for Olivar Asselin and editor of the women's pages of Le Canada.
- She founded the journal Paysana in 1938 and served as its director until it ceased operation in 1949.
- She was responsible for the radio programs Notre pain quotidien and V'là le bon vent on CKAC and De fils en aiguille and Le réveil rural on Radio-Canada.
- She was also co-host for the television program Voix de femmes and then host of Sans détour on CHLT – Sherbrooke.
- She was also a contributor to the newspapers La Presse, Le Devoir, Montréal-Matin, Le Nouvelliste and La Tribune.In 1946, she founded the Centre Social Claire-Vallée and served as its director until the early 1960s.
- In 1974, she founded a cultural and educational centre, the Gaudet Bourg Centre, in Aston-Jonction.
- She also taught continuing education at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières.From 1969 to 1971, she was president of the Cercle des femmes journalistes and, from 1981 to 1984, of the Fondation de l'Hôpital du Christ-Roi.She was married twice: to Paul Smet in 1934 (he died in 1950) and then to Samuel Brisson in 1965.In 1974, Gaudet Smet was named to the Order of Canada.
- In 1985, she was named a Chevalier in the National Order of Quebec.
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