The author of this book : Lucien Bonnet

I am of the age group of the Prime Minister of Canada who governed the destinies of the country from 1993 to 2003, the Right honorable Jean Chrétien.

Yes!  I coasted along with him during one year, about 1954 -1955, as student and finishing my studies at the Saint-Joseph Seminar of Trois-Rivières.  I was the only Haitian student in Trois-Rivières (Three Rivers) at that time and undoubtedly he remembers it...  Perhaps!  But I, "the litlte guy from Haiti", I do recall "The Little Guy from Shawinigan"!  How can that be forgotten, his visual image remains in my memory?  He was at that time the only student whom I knew who told jokes in the playground with his inseparable pipe at the corner of his lips!

Of course, nowadays, he has gotten rid of it, whereas I, from 1959 to 1962  I  left  Quebec  and  Canada to return to Haiti, to work in Tele-Haiti.  That move, that three - year stay in Port-au-Prince certainly did modify thoroughly my circle of friends and acquaintances.  Those comings and goings, I was going to say a must then, between Haïti and Canada, surely were for me the occasion of experiences described today as unusual.

Some events in Trois-Rivières in particular, return to my memory as if they happened only yesterday.

The Director of the college, with great courtesy, found for me a boarding house not far.  To attend the courses at the college, it was imperative for me to be housed and nourished.  I was nineteen years old.  I aspired, in my weekend’s leisure, to hang out with the young people of my age.  My classmates were sympathetic.  As in break time, on Saturdays I wished to be with them in their environment.  Thus, the buddies of Trois-Rivières took me out to visit the Bournival at Saint-Étienne-des-Grès, the Chrétien and the Trudel at Shawinigan.

Lucien Bonnet

As this site shows it, Lucien Bonnet appears here as being a tested expert in what is conventionally called, in Communication Sciences, Economy of the Gift.

Here he is seen:

1. sometimes in company of its school-mates during the conferring of degrees at the University of Montreal on June 19, 2002;
   
   
2. sometimes surrounded by the members of his family, who join him in this evening of commencement;
   
   
3. sometimes between the Rector and Vice Dean who chair this ceremony, accentuated with thoughts and colors, which brings to their apex those years of studies and formation, at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of the University of Montreal.

Curriculum Vitae

Personal information

Name:	Lucien Bonnet
Address:	4390, boulevard Samson App.1 Laval, Quebec, Canada H7W 2G9
Telephone:	(450) 687-8406
Marital status:	Married (2 children)
Birthplace:	Moron (Jérémie) - Haïti

Education

Higher education:

1998 - 2002 :	University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada Faculty of Arts and Sciences Baccalaureate specialized in Communication Science..
1965 - 1967 1956 - 1958 :	University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada Department of Political Sciences Studies and credits accumulated toward baccalaureate in Political Sciences.
1955 - 1956 :	Seminar of the Foreign missions, Pont-Viau, Laval, Quebec Theological Studies and Works of the Vocations of the Diocese of Montreal.

Secondary studies:

1954 - 1955 :	Seminar of Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada Supplemental courses in Philosophy.
1946 - 1951 :	Petit séminaire Collège St-Martial, Port-au-Prince, Haïti Baccalaureate 1e and 2nd Parts.

Études Primaires :

1941 - 1946 :

École des Frères de l'instruction Chrétienne, Moron (Jérémie), Haïti Certificate of primary studies.