Fulgence charpentier biography of abraham

Fulgence Charpentier, OC (June 29, 1897 – February 6, 2001) was a French Canadian journalist, editor and publisher.

Born in Sainte-Anne-de-Prescott, Ontario, Charpentier's career included diplomatic, political and bureaucratic positions, but his first love had been journalism ever since he began his reporting career at Montreal's Le Devoir in 1915, during which he earned $20 a week.

In 1918, Charpentier joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force, but the war ended before he could be sent overseas.

Fulgence charpentier biography of abraham

He stayed in the army after the Armistice to work in a military hospital on the campus of McGill University in Montreal.

Charpentier began covering Parliament for Ottawa's Le Droit (the city's largest newspaper) in 1922.

He got the job because his father built Le Droit's first offices. The newspaper sent him to law school in Toronto for two academic years before he began his parliamentary reporting.^[1]

Charpentier was the longest-serving