Victor Barbeau
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|birth_date = {{Birth date|1894|8|18|df=y}}
|birth_place = Montreal, Quebec
|death_date = {{Death date and age|1994|7|19|1894|8|18|df=y}}
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| resting_place = Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery
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Victor Barbeau, {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|OC|GOQ}} (18 August 1894 – 19 July 1994) was a Quebec writer and academic.
Born in Montreal, Quebec, Barbeau was educated at Collège Sainte-Marie, Université Laval, and University of Paris. From 1925 to 1963, he was a professor at HEC Montréal.
He was a founding member of the Académie canadienne française (today Académie des lettres du Québec) and was its president from 1944 to 1947.
In 1970, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 1987, he was made a Grand Officer of the National Order of Quebec. After his death in 1994, he was entombed at the Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery in Montreal.{{Cite book|title=Répertoire des personnages inhumés au cimetière ayant marqué l'histoire de notre société|publisher=Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery|location=Montreal|language=fr}}
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- {{cite web|url=http://www2.hec.ca/archives/privees/P010.html|title=Fonds de Victor-Barbeau|language=fr|access-date=2 August 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727090040/http://www2.hec.ca/archives/privees/P010.html|archive-date=27 July 2011|url-status=dead}}
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Category:Grand Officers of the National Order of Quebec
Category:Officers of the Order of Canada
Category:Writers from Montreal
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Category:University of Paris alumni
Category:Burials at Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery
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Category:Canadian male non-fiction writers
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