Léger resigned as Montreal's archbishop on April 20, 1968 to perform missionary work go in Cameroon among lepers and handicapped children.

A poll conducted by Léger Marketing for Le Devoir placed the Liberals at 34 per cent against 32 per cent for the PQ and 24 per cent for the ADQ, with Charest obtaining a higher personal approval rating than the PQ leader.

Marcel Léger, who had been the PQ Member of the provincial legislature for the district of LaFontaine since 1970 became the party's first leader on September 14, 1983.

Kröller-Müller also collected works by other modern artists, such as paintings and works on paper by Picasso, Fernand Léger, Diego Rivera, George Seurat, Juan Gris, and Piet Mondrian.

The title of the " Barenaked Ladies " song " Enid " was inspired by Enid Léger, a waitress at Spanky's Pub ( which once occupied the space on Main Street now home to Terra Verde ) in Moncton, New Brunswick.

It came to rely heavily on Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler's Der Weg zum Kubismus ( published in 1920 ), which centered on the development Picasso, Braque, Léger and Gris.

While living in New York, Richter directed two feature films, Dreams That Money Can Buy ( 1947 ) and 8 x 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements ( 1957 ) in collaboration with Max Ernst, Jean Cocteau, Paul Bowles, Fernand Léger, Alexander Calder, Marcel Duchamp, and others, which was partially filmed on the lawn of his summer house in Southbury, Connecticut.

Among the artists represented in the collection are, from Italy, De Chirico ( The Red Tower, The Nostalgia of the Poet ) and Severini ( Sea Dancer ); from France, Braque ( The Clarinet ), Duchamp ( Sad Young Man on a Train ), Léger ( Study of a Nude ), Picabia ( Very Rare Picture on Earth ); from Spain, Dalí ( Birth of Liquid Desires ), Miró ( Seated Woman II ) and Picasso ( The Poet, On the Beach ); from other European countries, Brâncuşi ( including a sculpture from the Bird in Space series ), Max Ernst ( The Kiss, Attirement of the Bride ), Giacometti ( Woman with Her Throat Cut, Woman Walking ), Gorky ( Untitled ), Kandinsky ( Landscape with Red Spots, No. 2, White Cross ), Klee ( Magic Garden ), Magritte ( Empire of Light ) and Mondrian ( Composition No. 1 with Grey and Red 1938, Composition with Red 1939 ); and from the US, Calder ( Arc of Petals ) and Pollock ( The Moon Woman, Alchemy ).

By 1913, her studio was so widely known that Fernand Léger gave two lectures there on the topic of Modern art.

A large amount of ' degenerate art ' by Picasso, Dalí, Ernst, Klee, Léger and Miró was destroyed in a bonfire on the night of July 27, 1942 in the gardens of the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris.

He was in 1978 appointed as governor general by Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada, on the recommendation of Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Trudeau, to replace Jules Léger as viceroy, and he occupied the post until succeeded by Jeanne Sauvé in 1984.

It was on December 28, 1978 announced from the Office of the Prime Minister of Canada that Queen Elizabeth II had, by commission under the royal sign-manual and Great Seal of Canada, approved Pierre Trudeau's choice of Schreyer to succeed Jules Léger as the Queen's representative.

After completing high school, Léger went on to the Collège de Valleyfield and then the Université de Montréal, where he completed a law degree.

Léger subsequently enrolled at the Sorbonne in Paris, from which he was awarded a doctorate in 1938, the same year that, on August 13, he married Gabrielle Carmel, whom he'd met at the University of Paris.

When Léger returned to Canada at the end of 1938, he was hired as an associate editor of Le Droit in Ottawa, but remained there for only one year before he went on to become a professor of diplomatic history at the University of Ottawa until 1942.

By 1968, Léger had returned to Canada's capital and was appointed as under-secretary of state, providing the administrative basis for Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson's foreign policy, and the policies on bilingualism and multiculturalism developed by the Cabinet chaired by Pearson's successor, Pierre Trudeau.

It was on October 5, 1973 announced from the Office of the Prime Minister of Canada that Queen Elizabeth II had, by commission under the royal sign-manual and Great Seal of Canada, approved Pierre Trudeau's choice of Léger to succeed Roland Michener as the Queen's representative.

Léger died on November 22, 1980, and was survived by his wife and daughter.

An online poll by Léger Marketing conducted shortly after the Viger tunnel collapse found that 88 per cent of Montrealers are “ worried ” about the state of roads, bridges and tunnels in the city, with more than half of respondents saying they are downright “ scared ” to drive under an overpass ( 58 per cent ), on a bridge ( 54 per cent ), or through a tunnel ( 53 per cent ).

In fact, while the acronym VAL now officially stands for Véhicule Automatique Léger ( automatic light vehicle ), it was originally for Villeneuve-d ' Ascq à Lille ( meaning Villeneuve-d ' Ascq to Lille ), the route of the first line to be projected, and inaugurated on 25 April 1983.

Léger received his episcopal consecration on the following April 26 from Cardinal Adeodato Giovanni Piazza, OCD, with Archbishop Maurice Roy and Bishop Jean-Julien Weber, PSS, serving as co-consecrators.

In the aftermath of the purge, Bonnet was congratulated by Phipps for removing the " warmongers " Massigli and Comert from the Quai d ' Orsay, but Phipps went on to complain that Saint-Legér Léger should have been sacked as well.

To the artist's dismay, a 1950s Fernand Léger sculpture was placed on the garden's plaza.

* 8 July 195428 May 1962: Mister Jules Léger

* 28 May 1962February 20, 1964: His Excellency Jules Léger, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Italy for Her Majesty's Government in Canada

After 1928, he stayed again in Cassis and Paris, studied shortly with Fernand Léger and became a member of the group Abstraction-Creation in 1933 and the Parisian Surrealists around André Breton in 1936, participating in all its major exhibitions and outreach thereafter, until he travelled to New York in May 1939.

* August 17 – Fernand Léger, French painter and sculptor ( b. 1881 )

* February 20, 1964April 17, 1964: His Excellency Jules Léger, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Italy and France for Her Majesty's Government in Canada

* April 17, 1964October 31, 1968: His Excellency Jules Léger, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to France for Her Majesty's Government in Canada

* The artist Fernand Léger died on 17 August 1955 in the house where, in 1972, negotiations were held between Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho which led to the end of the Vietnam War.

In 1906 he moved to Paris and became friends with Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger, then in 1915 he was painted by his friend, Amedeo Modigliani.

He was good friends with the Cubist artist Fernand Léger.

Léger was based in Montparnasse.

In French Indochina, the local resistance fighting the Japanese since 1941 was backed up by a special forces airborne commando unit created by de Gaulle in 1943, and known as the Corps Léger d ' Intervention ( CLI ).

Giraudoux was born in Bellac, Haute-Vienne, where his father, Léger Giraudoux, worked for the Ministry of Transport.

The diplomat Alexis Léger ( Perse's real name ) was a well-known and uncompromising anti-Nazi and his house was raided by German troops.

At his home, in 1911, he and his brothers Raymond and Marcel organized a regular discussion group with artists and critics such as Francis Picabia, Robert Delaunay, Fernand Léger and others that was soon dubbed the Puteaux Group.

According to a study made in 2006 by Le Journal de Montréal and Léger Marketing, René Lévesque was considered by far, according to Québécois, the best premier to run the province over the last 50 years.

The " ballet " was originally conceived to be accompanied by a film by experimental filmmakers Fernand Léger and Dudley Murphy ( with cinematography by Man Ray ), although the nature of the collaboration is mysterious.

Eugène Boudin was born in Honfleur and Fernand Léger in Argentan.

It was rededicated in 1955 to Mary, Queen of the World, by Pope Pius XII at the request of cardinal Paul-Émile Léger.

The Ballet Mécanique was originally intended to accompany an experimental film by Fernand Léger, but the musical score is twice the length of the film and now stands alone.

Jules Léger ( April 4, 1913November 22, 1980 ) was a Canadian diplomat and statesman who served as Governor General of Canada, the 21st since Canadian Confederation.

Léger was born and educated in Quebec and France prior to starting a career in the Canadian Department of External Affairs, and eventually served as ambassador to a number of countries.

As the Queen's representative, Léger was credited for modernising the office and fostering Canadian unity.

On June 1, 1979, Léger was sworn into the Queen's Privy Council for Canada, giving him the accordant style of The Honourable.

However, as a former governor general of Canada, Léger was entitled to be styled for life with the superior form of The Right Honourable.

Born in Saint-Anicet, Quebec, to Ernest and Alda ( née Beauvais ), Léger, along with his brother, Paul-Émile, was raised in a devoutly religious family.