12 Facts About Fulgence Charpentier

Fulgence Charpentier, OC was a French Canadian journalist, editor and publisher.

In 1918, Fulgence Charpentier joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force, but the war ended before he could be sent overseas.

Fulgence Charpentier stayed in the army after the Armistice to work in a military hospital on the campus of McGill University in Montreal.

Fulgence Charpentier began covering Parliament for Ottawa's Le Droit in 1922.

Fulgence Charpentier got the job because his father built Le Droit's first offices.

Fulgence Charpentier was the longest-serving member of the Parliamentary Press Gallery.

Fulgence Charpentier was head of the French section of the Canadian Censorship Branch through most of the Second World War, assuming full control of the Censorship Branch in January 1945, when chief censor Wilfrid Eggleston resigned.

Fulgence Charpentier was appointed editor-in-chief of Le Droit following his diplomatic career in 1968 at the age of 71.

Fulgence Charpentier's resume included serving as a media spokesman for ambassador Georges Vanier in Paris and working as a diplomat from 1946 until 1968 in some francophone African nations and South America.

Fulgence Charpentier was still writing weekly columns on his trusty typewriter for Le Droit until 1999, when he had to stop due to chronic bronchial pneumonia at the age of 101.

Fulgence Charpentier died at age 103 of pneumonia on February 6,2001.

Fulgence Charpentier served on the Ottawa Board of Control, and ran for mayor in 1935, but lost.