Gauthier was not one of the Bloc's better-known Members of Parliament ( MPs ), but after Lucien Bouchard resigned to become Premier of Quebec, Gauthier won the Bloc Québécois leadership election of 1996, defeating Francine Lalonde.

Landry became Premier of Quebec on March 8, 2001, following the resignation of Lucien Bouchard.

* Lucien Bouchard ( 1996 – 2001 ):

Lucien Bouchard is also said to have been influenced by the weight of the affair ( which received extremely negative coverage in the international press ) to resign as Premier of Quebec in 2001 ( although he did not admit it ).

Bouchard is the younger brother of Lucien Bouchard, Premier of Quebec from 1996 to 2001.

In 2001, after the resignation of Parti Québécois leader Lucien Bouchard, Ouimet tried to enlist as a candidate for the party leadership.

It was rediscovered there in 1799 by a soldier, Pierre-François Bouchard, of the French expedition to Egypt.

As regards Fulk the Young we know only a few isolated facts and dates: about 1109 Doué and L ' Île Bouchard were taken ; in 1112 Brissac was besieged, and about the same time Eschivard of Preuilly subdued ; in 1114 there was a general war against the barons who were in revolt, and in 1118 a fresh rising, which was put down after the siege of Montbazon: in 1123 the lord of Doué revolted, and in 1124 Montreuil-Bellay was taken after a siege of nine weeks.

Another rising was crushed in 1134 by the destruction of Cand and the taking of L ' Île Bouchard.

BQ founder Lucien Bouchard was a cabinet minister in the federal Progressive Conservative government of Brian Mulroney.

The initial coalition that led to the Bloc was headed by Lucien Bouchard, who had been federal Minister of the Environment in the Progressive Conservative government of Brian Mulroney.

Bouchard was joined by five of his fellow Tories, Nic Leblanc, Louis Plamondon, Benoît Tremblay, Gilbert Chartrand, and François Gérin, along with two Liberals, Gilles Rocheleau and Jean Lapierre.

Soon after the new Parliament was sworn in, Bouchard announced that Bloc MPs would only speak French on the floor of the House of Commons, a policy that remains in force to this day.

Also, in 1995, when Bouchard garnered an invitation to meet visiting US President Bill Clinton by virtue of being Opposition Leader, Reform leader Preston Manning was also given a meeting with Clinton in order to diffuse Bouchard's separatist leverage.

The Oui side's campaign had a difficult beginning, so the leadership of the campaign was shifted from PQ leader Jacques Parizeau to Bloc leader Lucien Bouchard.

Bouchard was seen as more charismatic and more moderate, and therefore more likely to attract voters.

This provision was inspired by Bouchard.

Unlike the 1998 strike, which lasted a mere three weeks and was resolved largely due to the personal relationship between Dutoit and Lucien Bouchard, then the premier of Quebec, this much more acrimonious work stoppage lasted five months, ending shortly before concerts to be conducted by Nagano.

Goaltender was Dan Bouchard led the team in wins ( 166 ) and shutouts ( 20 ).

The team was respectable through much of the season on the strength of Bouchard and Myre's goaltending performances, and by mid-January, had a 20 – 19 – 8 win-loss-tie record.

Parizeau was replaced by Lucien Bouchard as PQ leader and Quebec premier on January 29, 1996.

The first recorded tourist to visit the island was French antiques dealer Jean-Jacques Bouchard in the 17th century.

Stabenow was challenged by Republican Michael Bouchard, Oakland County sheriff and former State Senate Majority Leader.

Bourchard and Margaret continued as a married couple, having 3 children, as their conflict with Joan grew violent and Bouchard was captured and imprisoned in 1219.

He was released in 1221 on the condition that the couple separate and that Bouchard get absolution from the pope.

In the first open letter, Dion challenged three assertions that Bouchard had made: that a unilateral declaration of independence is supported by international law, that a majority of " 50 % plus one " was a sufficient threshold for secession, and that international law would protect the territorial integrity of Quebec following a secession.

While looking directly at Quebec Premier Lucien Bouchard, who was present in the audience, Clinton appeared to echo the Supreme Court Reference, warning that " when a people thinks it should be independent in order to have a meaningful political existence, serious questions should be asked .... Are minority rights as well as majority rights respected?

Bouchard left federal politics and succeeded Parizeau in both posts on 26 January 1996.

Lucien Bouchard, a former member of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's Cabinet and later founder of the Bloc Québécois, a federal-level sovereigntist party, succeeded Parizeau as PQ leader, but chose not to call another referendum due to the absence of " winning conditions ".

He succeeded his father as Baron de Montfort in 1181 ; in 1190 he married Alix de Montmorency, the daughter of Bouchard III de Montmorency.

Landry decided not to run, and Gilles Duceppe eventually succeeded Bouchard as leader.

He won a by-election in 1996 and succeeded Lucien Bouchard as Member of Parliament for the Lac-Saint-Jean electoral district.

The Bloc Québécois ( BQ ) is a federal political party founded in 1990 by future PQ leader Lucien Bouchard.

* 2001-Discouraged at the lack of support for sovereignty among the population and a fractious PQ caucus, Lucien Bouchard resigns as Premier of Quebec and retires from public life on January 11.

After the PQ won the 1994 election, Chevrette served in various ministerial posts in cabinet in the governments of Parizeau, Lucien Bouchard and Bernard Landry.

He served as a cabinet minister from 1998 to 2003, under Parti Québécois ( PQ ) Premiers Lucien Bouchard and Bernard Landry, holding a variety of high profile portfolios.

After a narrow federalist victory in Quebec's 1995 referendum on sovereignty, Lucien Bouchard left the Bloc Québécois to become leader of its provincial counterpart, the Parti Québécois ( PQ ).

Gilles Duceppe, who had served as interim leader after Bouchard stepped down, became leader of the Bloc in 1997 and remained leader up until 2011, resigning after the 2011 federal election.

Lucien Bouchard has been the leader of both parties.

However, these attempts to restore the Reform Party's image as a tolerant political party were damaged in the 1997 federal election when the Reform Party released a controversial television advertisement where the faces of four Quebec politicians: Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, Bloc Québécois leader Gilles Duceppe, Progressive Conservative leader Jean Charest, and the separatist Premier of Quebec Lucien Bouchard were crossed out followed by a message saying that Quebec politicians had dominated the federal government for too long and that the Reform Party would end this favouritism towards Quebec.

The party ran an election ad in which the faces of four key Quebec leaders ( Prime Minister Chrétien, PC leader Charest, former Bloc Québécois chief Lucien Bouchard, and new Bloc leader Gilles Duceppe ) were crossed out, saying that Canada had been governed too long by Quebec politicians.

In protest, both Reform Party of Canada leader Preston Manning and Bloc Québécois leader Lucien Bouchard refused to attend LeBlanc's installation ceremony.

Chrétien defended the Clarity Act and attacked sovereigntist Quebec premier and former Bloc Québécois leader Lucien Bouchard, challenging him to hold another referendum on sovereignty under the new laws, as Chrétien expected that the sovereigntists would lose such a referendum.

In 1996, when Lucien Bouchard stepped down as Bloc leader to become leader of the Parti Québécois, Duceppe served as interim leader of the party.

Some Reform Party supporters were frustrated by the party's decision to expand its political base into Quebec as they continued to believe that the party should represent English Canada and others from the right-wing and populist faction of the party were angry that Manning punished MPs Bob Ringma and David Chatters During the campaign the Reform Party released a controversial television advertisement where the faces of four Quebec politicians: Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, Bloc Québécois leader Gilles Duceppe, Progressive Conservative leader Jean Charest, and the separatist Premier of Quebec Lucien Bouchard were crossed out followed by a message saying that Quebec politicians had dominated the federal government for too long and that the Reform Party would end this favoritism towards Quebec.

* 1994 Lucien Bouchard, former premier of Québec, Canada, who became infected in 1994 while leader of the federal official opposition Bloc Québécois party, lost a leg to the illness.

This growth halted, however, and Parizeau came under pressure to hand more of the campaign over to the more moderate and conservative Lucien Bouchard, the popular leader of the federal Bloc Québécois party.