Military Figure. He is remembered as a highly-decorated Canadian military officer, who inspired the World War II poster "What it takes to Win." Born a French Canadian in a small village of Notre-Dame-du-Lac in the Bas-Saint-Laurent in Québec, he entered the Royal Military College of Kingston in 1932 after studying Académie de Québec and earned his degree from Université Laval. After graduating from military college in 1936, , the Ministry of Defense sent him to India in 1938 to serve with the infantry, the cavalry and the tanks. During the almost two-year deployment, he participated in the campaign of Wosiristan. Upon his return to Canada, in March of 1940, he was promoted to captain and joined the Staff of the Inspector General for the East of Canada. Later that year, he was sent to Ottawa to complete the training of troops of reinforcement, which he led in England in August of 1940. As the liaison officer at the General Headquarters of the Second Canadian Division, he was promoted to major in June of 1941. A month later, he returned to Canada to follow a superior course in Kingston and sent to Great Britain to join his Royal 22nd Regiment as commander of "C" Company. At age 29, he became a lieutenant-colonel and commander of the Fusiliers Mont-Royal in March of 1942. Heading this regiment on the beach of Dieppe during the raid of August 19, 1942, he was wounded on five occasions by Nazi firings. His citation at the Order of the Army read as follows: " While he commanded his battalion during the operation of Dieppe, on August 19th, 1942, this officer gave evidence of the highest qualities of courage and of initiative. He was wounded at the beginning of the raid, as he landed with the first groups of assault, but he continued to steer the operations of his unity by wireless telegraphy, under a fire fed by machine guns, by mortars and by artillery. Later, with the aim of reaching a more favorable position, he dragged himself up to a high point of the ground, but he was again wounded. Even after having been transported aboard a landing barge, and although wounded for the fifth time, he continued to insist on organizing the defense against planes, and taking care of his men. He put an example which is in the best tradition of the Army and was an inspiration for all the officers and the privates of his battalion ". His men brought him wounded to the beach and he was the only commander deployed at Dieppe who returned to Great Britain. This valor led to the inspiration of the famous Canadian World War II poster "Ce qu'il faut pour vaincre" or "What is needed to win". In 1943, he participated in the taking of Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands. He was promoted brigadier-general in 1956 and until 1958, he commanded the Second brigade of the Army. As commanding officer of the Army forces in Québec, from 1958 to 1965, he instituted French as the official language of command for all the French-speaking units of the Canadian army. He terminated his military career in 1965. During the referendum campaign of 1980 on the project of sovereignty-association for Quebec, he gave publicly his support for voting "Yes". He was made Grand Officer of the national Order of Quebec in 1993 and was also a member of the Order of the Distinguished Service and of the Legion of Honor of France. Upon his death, he was buried with full military honors and interred in the Saint-Vallier-de-Bellechasse cemetery, in the small and ancient village on the St. Lawrence River where he used to spend his last summers.