Professional Experience
August 1975 to Present :
Collège de l'Outaouais Outaouais, Québec
Geography Professor. Education
1981 Université de Montréal Montréal, Québec
PhD in Social Geography.
Thesis subject: French immigration in Québec.
Université de la Sorbonne Paris, France Bachelor's
and Master's Degree in Geography. Other Publications and
Film - "Momotombo" (Produced and directed this
film on Nicaragua. Translated into English and Spanish) 1991.
- "Outaouais/Franche-Comté."
(Report for the Regional Secretariat's Meeting on the Outaouais) Hull, 1987.
- General
Introduction to Geography (Geography Textbook for Secondary School Students) Montreal,
Guérin, 1974.
- Published numerous articles in geographical, pedagogical
and literary revues.
Member of the Outaouais Author's
Association (L'association des auteurs de l'Outaouais) Languages:
English, French, Spanish and some German. Hello, For
the review of my books, consult the section Livres , you will find
what people say about my books. Among the novelties: Palm trees in the snow
and The man who looked westward. To
have news from me look the section Nouvelles, clicking the button
Nouvelles. In this section, I make the report of books which I
have just read: Just before
the dawn, of André Besson Wealth
of the poverty, Sister Emmanuelle A
shout in the silence, of Brigitte Bardot For
all which concerns my papers, if it interests you, consult the section Livres
"or make a search on the Web of Quebec to Grosmaire Jean-Louis. I
am not of the kind to tell my life.
I prefer to write, not to speak and still,
when I write, I spend time crossing off the three-quarters of the text. The main
part says to itself in so few words. I
am a mixture of several countries, been born in Ivory Coast ( Côte d'Ivoire
) of French parents, I lived my childhood in Germany and after in Saint Louis
of Senegal, it was beautiful!
I hope to return on day in Saint-Louis.
I studied in France, in Franche-Comté and in Paris. For years now I live
in Quebec, in Outaouais, just in front of Ottawa.
I
feel of everywhere and from here. Everything interests me and I rarely have
seen
somebody who did not deserve attention.
P.S.:
for the last news of Canada, consult my News page and click Some
links, in french: Nouvelles et Liens. Novelty?
Go to the section News, Nouvelles. For
original links: go to News, then links. Page to be placed in your favourites ! To
consult my last articles, go to News, then Articles
This
is my letter to the President of United States of America,11/12/02 Letter
to the President of the United States of America
Mister President,
"
I am writing this letter that you might read, if you have time to do so ".
While you pursue tyrants and throw the youth of your country into wars, a large
part of humanity is dying. Can you hear the emaciated children cry plaintively?
Can you see the agony of mothers who have Aids? Can you recognize your brothers
in the cohort of beggars?
Mister President, you, the most powerful man of
the planet, face the challenge of poverty fed by human's exploitation of humans.
May truly united nations move forward and with the greatest courage towards fair
societies, who respect all humans, fauna and flora. Let's offer the kids of the
world and their parents Love and Respect. Let us refuse these horrible wars that
shed blood all over the continents. The wild and frantic race to power and to
quickly made profits lead us, inevitably, to the pillaging of our planet. Poverty
destroys our societies. Can you hear the sufferings of humanity? Mister President,
take a look outside your palace windows, misery starts right in your own streets.
The human adventure requires more than words. Concrete actions can give back to
man, wherever he may be, his own dignity. Respecting our cultures and beliefs,
let's put all our energy together in fighting the unacceptable misery of our brothers
and sisters. Mister President, you have to seize the moment. You have the chance
to put mankind on the path of peace. Don't lose that opportunity. Poverty, illiteracy,
starvation, diseases, slavery and tortures, here are the challenges you need to
address with The United Nations. Mister President, orient mankind towards higher
future. This is not utopian, it is urgent. Our sisters and brothers are suffering
and dying every moment in the greatest indifference. Can you hear them crying?
For those who can't write, who have no paper, no pencils, no bread, no rice,
no water, no roof; for those who are sick, exhausted, tortured, for those who'll
become collateral victims, for the dying, those who can't voice their concerns,
those who have no home, no love, no respect; for the joyless kids, who have no
toys, no vital energy; for the tired, wounded and destroyed mothers; for the overwhelmed
men who are exploited and broken, for all of them, sisters and brothers of all
ages, I ask you to take action at once.
Yours truly,
Jean-Louis Grosmaire
Gatineau, Québec
Canada
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