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| | Drapeau, Jean (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | Drapeau, Jean, lawyer, politician, mayor of Montréal (b at Montréal 18 Feb 1916; d at Montréal Aug 1999). |
 | | Drapeau then caught Montréal's imagination, leading a public inquiry into police corruption and, when Mayor Camillien HOUDE suddenly retired, Drapeau swept to power in the 28 October 1954 election. |
 | | After 3 years of brooding and the old Québec now dead with Duplessis, Drapeau purged many of his old allies, formed a private political club, the Civic Party, and, promising Montréal a subway and clean government, won the 1960 election at the same time that all of Québec was launching into the QUIET REVOLUTION. |
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