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Radio-Canada
Published on July 22, 2022
19 August 1942. In the midst of the Second World War, hundreds of Quebecers participated in the Dieppe Raid, the largest military defeat in Canadian history.
Eighty years to the day after the events, the artist Nicolas Paquin, originally from Danville, will go to France to pay tribute to the fighters who have often remained in the shadows. It will present seven monologues based on the experience of Canadian soldiers who took part in the military operation.
"You can't know how many times I meet families and they tell me that finally, someone is interested in my grandpa, my uncle. They suffered all their lives from the raid, but also from the fact that we did not take care of what they had experienced, "said the instigator of the show.
"What do we remember from this, what has marked Quebec?"
According to Nicolas Paquin, the work will take his audience through the full range of emotions. He wants fighters, like Léo Lanier, to remain in the collective memory.
"The historian's job is to bring history to life, to bring facts to life. The artist's job is to arouse memory, it is to open the heart of the public, so that people feel. [...] There is history, love, there is drama, there is comedy itself, because there are guys who have experienced spectacular things!"
"I exploit war, not to bring horror, but to do good."
— A quote from Nicolas Paquin, writer and performing artist
After a few days of rehearsal at the Richmond Art Centre, Nicolas Paquin will take off for Dieppe, where he hopes to reach those who remember, as well as those who have forgotten.
"Art has this particularity, this strength, of being able to change our way of seeing the world," concludes the artist.
