Claire Fauteux Claire Fauteux Claire Fauteux (23 September 1890 – 8 July 1988) was a Canadian painter. Fauteux specialized in portrait and landscape paintings, occasionally creating murals. During World War II, she was interred in France by the Germans during the occupation. While imprisoned, she created a series of illustrations which would be published in her book, "Fantastic Voyage." Marie Claire Fauteux was born in Montreal, Canada in September 1890. She studied at the Art Association of Montreal before proceeding to go to Europe, where she continued her studies at the Académie Julian in Paris. She focused on portrait and landscape painting.
Marie-Claire Blais Marie-Claire Blais Marie-Claire Blais, (born 5 October 1939) is a French Canadian writer, novelist, poet, and playwright from the province of Quebec. Blais was born to a blue collar family in Quebec City. She studied at a convent school, but had to interrupt her education to seek employment. At the age of seventeen, she enrolled in a few classes at Université Laval, where she met Jeanne Lapointe and Father Georges-Henri Lévesque, who encouraged her to write. She published her first novel "La Belle Bête" (translated as "Mad Shadows") in 1959, when she turned 20. She has since written more than