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Queneau
French author. After working as a reporter, he became a reader for the prestigious Encyclopé die de la Plé iade, a scholarly edition of past and present classical authors; by 1955 he was its director. Verbal play, black humor, pessimism, and a derisive posture toward authority appear often in his more than 30 works of prose and poetry, which include the novels Zazie (1959), perhaps his best-known work, and The Blue Flowers (1965).
Quebec
Province (pop., 1996: 7,420,000), E Canada. It is bounded by the Hudson Strait, Ungava Bay, Newfoundland, the Gulf of St. Lawrence, New Brunswick, the U.S., Ontario, and Hudson Bay. Its capital is Quebec city. The original inhabitants were Inuits (see Eskimo) and members of the Algonquian, Cree, and other Indian tribes. Settled by the French in the early 17th cent., it was lost to the British in the French and Indian War, but the struggle for authority between the French and British groups led to a rebellion by French Canadians in 1837. The rebellion was quelled, and in 1867 Quebec united with New Brunswick and Nova Scotia to form the Dominion of Canada. Most of the population is of French descent. Various movements for independence have continued during the 20th cent.; the Parti Qué becois won provincial elections in 1976, but its independence referendum was defeated in 1980. A second independence referendum was defeated in 1995 by a close margin. Principal industries include mining, hydroelectric power, and forestry.
City (metro. area pop., 1996: 672,000), port, and capital of Quebec province. It lies at the confluence of the St. Lawrence and St. Charles rivers, about 150 mi (240 km) northeast of Montreal, on a rocky promontory above the rivers. Canada's oldest city, it was settled by the French in 1608 as a trading post. It was the capital of New France from 1663 to 1763, when it was lost to the British. It was the capital of Lower Canada 1791-1841 and Canada East 1841-67. It became the provincial capital in 1867. Most of the population is French speaking and Roman Catholic. It is the site of Laval Univ. and other colleges and cultural institutions. Manufactures include newsprint, milled grain, cigarettes, and clothing. Shipbuilding and tourism are important industries.
Quesnay
French physician and economist. He served as consulting physician to Louis XV at Versailles, where he developed an interest in economics. In his Tableau é conomique (1758), he described the relationship between the different economic classes of society and the flow of payments among them, and he developed the concept of economic equilibrium used by many later economic analysts. An advocate of laissez-faire economic policy, he became the intellectual leader of the physiocrats, the first systematic school of political economy.
quetzal
Any of several tropical arboreal, short-billed, fruit-eating birds (genus Pharomachrus) in the trogon family ...
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