One might think the story out of a spy novel: In the fall of 1966, the Quebec novelist, Hubert Aquin, was expelled from Switzerland. He is opposed to an overly numerous foreign population on the territory. Arrived a few months earlier to settle in Switzerland in the long term, the man especially has a past which could upset the authorities: former militant of independence of Quebec who passed underground. Judged in his country, interned some time in a psychiatric hospital, he settled in Lausanne in the spring of 1966 to live and write there. Alerted from his presence, the cantonal and federal fonts watch him and place his listening phone. They fear that Hubert Aquin will play the role of a liaison agent between Quebec and Jurassian separatists. Ces-Derniers are very active that year.
To understand this thorny welcome from Hubert Aquin in Switzerland, Pierre Jenny met Claude Hauser, professor of contemporary history at the University of Friborg and co-director of the Swiss Center for Studies on Quebec and La Francophonie. He takes us to Canada, and more precisely in Quebec from the 1960s who lived at the time of the Quiet Revolution.
https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/globe/2010-v13-n1-globe3916/044640ar.pdf
