Pierre Lampron, who devoted his career to the development and promotion of Quebec culture, died on March 29, when he had just turned 77.
Among other things, he was the first President and Chief Executive Officer of the Société de développement des entreprises culturelle (SODEC), from 1995 to 1999. Mr. Lampron was a major player in the establishment of new financial tools, in particular the Fonds d investment in culture and communications.
“For me, Pierre Lampron was a very great administrator of culture. He gave a wander to go to SODEC, then to cinema, literature and music, in a truly exceptional way, underlines the producer and filmmaker Roger Frappier. We often whine at administrators, but when we find a good one, we feel the difference in relation to the change that is taking place in the profession. Pierre also had a very great importance from an international point of view. It greatly favored contacts for co-productions with France and Belgium. »
Indeed, before joining SODEC, Mr. Lampron was director of the Paris offices, then London, of Telefilm Canada, from 1989 to 1995. It was in the French capital that he reconnected with Louise Beaudoin , whom he had worked with in the Quebec government.
Pierre was a cultural visionary. He was someone who thought about Quebec culture and he was at the same time a cultural entrepreneur.
Louise Beaudoin
“We first met in the early years of the first Parti Québécois government, at the end of the 1970s. We had been friends for a long time,” continues the former MP for Chambly and Rosemont. Somewhat by chance, we found ourselves at Telefilm Canada on the same files. […] Later, when he was at SODEC and I became Minister of Culture, we worked extremely closely. The entire Quebec cultural ecosystem owes him a lot. »
At the turn of the 2000s, Mr. Lampron was Chairman and CEO for a few months at TV5 Americas before being appointed head of TVA Films. He remained in office until 2004, then obtained the vice-presidency of institutional relations at Quebecor.
Policy
In 2009, Mr. Lampron campaigned with Louise Harel for Vision Montreal. He was elected councilor for the district of Vieux-Rosemont. He remained in politics until 2012.
A former professor of literature and linguistics at the cégep de Trois-Rivières, he received several prizes and distinctions during his career: Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters of the French Republic (1991), Knight of the Order National Merit of the French Republic (1998), Knight of the Order of the Pléiade of the Parliamentary Assembly of La Francophonie (2001). He is also the recipient of the Samuel de Champlain award, in recognition of his major role in France-Quebec relations.
He is survived by his wife Lise Julien, with whom he has shared the last 57 years, his sons Julien and Antoine, as well as his grandchildren Hadrien, Sophie, Romain, Charles, Jeanne, Louis as well as many relatives and friends. .