Adjutor Rivard
Encyclopedia
Adjutor Rivard was a lawyer, writer, judge and linguist from Quebec
, Canada
.
He studied at the Petit séminaire de Québec
and Université Laval
. He is known to have co-founded the Société du parler français au Canada
(SPFC) and is recognized as one of the principal authors of the Glossaire du parler français au Canada published by the SPFC in 1930. With Mgr Louis-Nazaire Bégin, he also co-founded the L'Action catholique review.
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
.
He studied at the Petit séminaire de Québec
Petit Séminaire de Québec
Le Petit Séminaire de Québec is a private French-language Roman Catholic secondary school in the Vieux-Québec area of Quebec City which was originally part of the Séminaire de Québec...
and Université Laval
Université Laval
Laval University is the oldest centre of education in Canada and was the first institution in North America to offer higher education in French...
. He is known to have co-founded the Société du parler français au Canada
Société du parler français au Canada
The Société du parler français au Canada was a learned society that endeavoured to study the French language spoken in Canada in the course of the 20th century...
(SPFC) and is recognized as one of the principal authors of the Glossaire du parler français au Canada published by the SPFC in 1930. With Mgr Louis-Nazaire Bégin, he also co-founded the L'Action catholique review.
Works
- L'art de dire : traité de lecture et de récitation, 1898 (online)
- Manuel de la parole, 1901
- Bibliographie du parler français au Canada : catalogue analytique des ouvrages traitant de la langue française au Canada (online) [with James Geddes]
- Chez nous, 1914 (online)
- Études sur les parlers de France au Canada, 1914 (online)
- Chez nos gens, 1918, Prix de l'Académie française (online)
- De la liberté de la presse, 1923 (online)
- Glossaire du parler français au Canada, 1930 (online: PDF, HTML)