Jean-Denis Gendron

Jean-Denis Gendron was a Canadian linguist and academic.
A graduate of the Université Laval and a doctor of letters of the University of Strasbourg, he was President of the Commission of Inquiry on the Situation of the French Language and Linguistic Rights in Quebec.
Gendron died on 16 February 2025, at the age of 100.

Honors

Member of the Conseil international de la langue française
Member of the Royal Society of Canada
Member of the
Officer of the Ordre des Palmes académiques
Officer of the National Order of Quebec

Publications

D'où vient l'accent des Québécois ? Et celui des Parisiens ?
''La modernisation de l'accent québécois''