What is Laurent Mailhot?
{{Infobox person | name = Laurent Mailhot | image = Laurent_Mailhot.jpg | alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software --> | caption = Laurent Mailhot | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> | birth_date = 22 September 1931 | birth_place = [[Saint-Alexis, Quebec|Saint-Alexis]], [[Quebec]], [[Canada]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2021|01|04|1931|09|22}} | death_place = [[Trois-Rivières]], Quebec, Canada | nationality = [[Canadians|Canadian]] | other_names = | occupation = Historian <br/> Writer | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }} '''Laurent Mailhot''' (22 September 1931 – 4 January 2021) was a Canadian historian, writer and professor. ==Life== Born in [[Saint-Alexis, Quebec|Saint-Alexis]] on 22 September 1931, Mailhot studied at the Séminaire de Joliette.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/lq/2007-n127-lq1198530/36749ac.pdf|title=Laurent Mailhot en L.M. par et malgré Lui-Même|date=2007|work=Érudit|language=French}}</ref> He earned a master's degree from the [[Université de Montréal]] and a doctorate from the [[Pierre Mendès-France University|University of Grenoble]]. He began teaching at the Université de Montréal in 1963.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hamel|first1=Réginald|last2=Hare|first2=John|last3=Wyczynski|first3=Paul|date=1989|title=Dictionnaire des auteurs de langue française en Amérique du Nord|trans-title= |url= |language=French|location=Montreal|publisher=Fides|isbn=}}</ref> He was an editor at the journal ''Études françaises'' from 1979 to 1987.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/etudfr/2014-v50-n3-etudfr01575/1027188ar/|title=Cinquante ans d'Études françaises|date=3 November 2014|journal=Érudit|doi=10.7202/1027188ar |language=French|last1=Gingras |first1=Francis |volume=50 |issue=3 |pages=5–14 |s2cid=161313645 }}</ref> Laurent Mailhot died in [[Trois-Rivières]] on 4 January 2021 at the age of 89.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.le