Guy Rocher, the “father of Quebec sociology” and also one of the authors of “Bill 101,” has died at the age of 101.

Guy Rocher is one of the great architects of modern Quebec. He participated in the creation of the Ministry of Education in the early 1960s and in the drafting of the Charter of the French Language, commonly known as “Bill 101,” in the late 1970s.

More recently, he has been a staunch defender of state secularism, believing it to be a logical continuation of the “Quiet Revolution.”

Born in Berthierville on April 20, 1924, Guy Rocher obtained a master’s degree in sociology from Laval University and a doctorate from Harvard University, his thesis focusing on relations between Church and State in New France.

At the beginning of his teaching career, he was appointed a member o

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