Canadian Rodolphe Dubé also wrote under the pseudonym François Hertel. He was a poet, essayist, novelist and playwright, and served his training with the Jesuits, resulting in a doctorate in philosophy and theology. In 1938, he received the holy orders. As a professor, he taught at various colleges in Montréal, and the Jesuit Collège du Sacré-Cœur in Sudbury, Ontario (now University of Sudbury). Following conflicts due to his non-conformist position, Dubé left the Jesuits in 1946 and was laicized one year later. He later went into a self-imposed exile in France, where he wrote for newspapers and magazines, mainly Franco-Canadian. He founded an art magazine and the publishing house Diaspora française. By now an agnostic philosopher, he returned to his native Quebec in 1984 shortly before his death. He was appointed member of the Académie Canadienne-Française. His Petits poèmes à la gloire du sport were published in 1945 in the journal “Les carnets viatoriens”, and in his anthology Cosmos.
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