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    Michel Dessailliant, dit Richeterre

    Michel Dessailliant, dit Richeterre, painter (fl 1701-23). A victim of France's mercantile policy, he was not able to settle permanently in New France and practise his art.

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    Michel Donato

    Michel (André) Donato. Bassist, composer, singer, b Montreal 25 Aug 1942. His father, Roland, was a saxophonist and dance band leader.

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    Michel Dumont

    Michel Dumont, OQ, actor, artistic director, translator and narrator (born 29 January 1941 in Kénogami [now Saguenay], QC; died 13 August 2020 in Saint-Lambert, QC). As artistic director of the Théâtre Jean-Duceppe for more than 30 years, Michel Dumont was regarded as a leading figure in Quebec theatre. He acted in more than 70 plays, some 15 TV series and a number of films. He won the Prix Gémeaux for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Drama Series three times (1998, 2003, 2013) and was made an Officer of the Ordre national du Québec in 2013.

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    Michel Dussault

    Michel (Joseph) Dussault. Pianist, teacher, broadcaster, composer, b Thetford-Mines, Que, 8 Jul 1943; premier prix (CMM) 1961, premier prix (Cons de Paris) 1963. He studied piano in Sherbrooke and 1955-61 at the CMM under Yvonne Hubert. At 13 he played the first movement of Beethoven's Concerto No.

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    Michel Garneau

    Michel Garneau, poet, playwright, musician and actor (born on 25 April 1939 in Montreal, Qc; died on 13 September 2021 in Magog). 

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    Michel-Georges Brégent

    Initially a self-taught composer, in about 1965 Brégent began work on the first organ section of a vast four-part biblical fresco entitled Les Testaments. His CBC-commissioned radio work Atlantide won the network a first special distinction of the Prix Italia 1985.

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    Michel Gervais

    Michel (Marc) Gervais. Conductor, b McLennan, northern Alberta, 25 Ap 1955; B MUS (Alberta) 1978.

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    Michel Gonneville

    Gonneville, Michel. Composer, b Montreal 31 Jul 1950; B MUS (Vincent-d'Indy/Sherbrooke) 1972, premier prix analysis (CMM) 1974, premier prix composition (CMM) 1975, D MUS (Montreal) 1997.

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    Michel Goulet

    Michel Goulet, sculptor (b at Asbestos, Québec 1944).

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    Michel Hirvy

    Michel (Mischa) Hirvy (b Hirschowitz). Pianist, teacher, b Warsaw, October 1900?, d Montreal 31 Dec 1966. He studied piano with Paul Lutzenko and graduated from the Stern Cons in Berlin. After further studies in Austria he lived 1928-39 in Paris, then in Portugal, and settled in Montreal in 1941.

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    Michel Kozlovsky

    Michel Kozlovsky. Pianist, teacher, administrator, b Beirut, Lebanon, 19 Jan 1951, naturalized Canadian 1973; B MUS (McGill) 1974, MMA (McGill) 1976, D MUS (Indiana) 1983.

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    Michel Lambeth

    Michel Lambeth, filmmaker, writer, photojournalist, teacher, publisher (b at Toronto 21 Apr 1923; d there 9 Apr 1977). He served in the Canadian Army 1942-45, and then studied art in London and Paris. Returning to Toronto in 1948, he supported himself with clerical work and free-lance writing.

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    Michel Longtin

    Michel Longtin, composer, teacher (b at Montréal 20 May 1946). 

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    Michel Longtin

    Longtin, Michel. Composer, teacher, b Montreal 20 May 1946; BA (Montreal) 1967, B MUS composition (Montreal) 1973, M MUS composition (Montreal) 1975, D MUS composition (Montreal) 1982.

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    Michel Louvain

    Michel Louvain (b Poulin). Singer, b Thetford-Mines, Que, 12 Jul 1937.

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