Pierre Daviault

Pierre Daviault ( born November 9, 1899 in Saint- Jérôme, † November 18, 1964 ) was a Canadian journalist, writer, translator and lexicographer.

Life and work

Daviault studied in Montreal and Paris. Then he was next to each translator in parliament, journalist and author. From 1936 he taught professional translation at the University of Ottawa.

Daviault In 1951 he founded the magazine Nouvelle Revue canadienne. National Review of Canada. In 1955 he became head of the Translation Bureau of the Government of Canada. The appointment as director of the Centre for Terminology founded in 1964 reached him shortly before his death.

Daviault was 1958-1959 President of the Royal Society of Canada, and from 1959 to 1961 president of the Société des canadiens écrivains.

Daviault was awarded the 1962 the Médaille de l' Académie des lettres du Québec.

Works

Translation studies and lexicography

  • ( with others) Military dictionary English - French, French - English, Ottawa 1945
  • Canadien ( with Jean -Paul Vinay and Henry Alexander) Dictionnaire. Français - anglais, anglais - français. Édition abrégée. The Canadian Dictionary. French - English, English - French. Concise Edition, Toronto, 1962 ( 34 861 pages); also ud T. Everyman's French - English, English - French dictionary with special reference to Canada, London 1962; also ud T. Van Nostrand 's concise student dictionary. French - English, English - French, Princeton 1962
  • Langage et traduction, Ottawa 1962, 1972, 1976, 1979 ( foreword by Robert Le Bidois )

Other works

  • La grande aventure de Pierre Le Moyne d' Iberville, Montreal 1934
  • Le Baron de Saint- Castin, chef Abenaquis, Montreal 1939 ( Jean -Vincent d' Abbadie de Saint- Castin )
  • Les Carnets d'un liseur. Artistes, aventuriers grands hommes, Montreal 1942
  • Les Carnets d'un liseur. Histoires, légendes, destins, Montreal 1945
  • Nora l' énigmatique, Montreal 1945 (novel, see: Gaétan Gervais and Jean -Pierre Pichette, Dictionnaire de l' Ontario français Écrits of 1613-1993, Ottawa 2010 sv)
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