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In many ways, Duplessis's death in 1959, quickly followed by the sudden death of his successor Paul Sauvé, served as a trigger for the Quiet Revolution.

Campaigning under the slogans Il faut que ça change ( Things have to change ) and Maîtres chez nous ( Masters of our own house ), a phrase coined by Le Devoir editor Andre Laurendeau, the Liberal Party, with Jean Lesage at its head, was elected within a year of Duplessis's death.