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Person
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Balète, É. (Émile), 1831-1909
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Description area
Dates of existence
1831-1909
History
Émile Balète was born in February 1831, in Perpignan, Pyrénées-Orientales, France.
He was a French colonel wounded during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871 and was decorated for his military deeds. In 1872, he settled in Quebec and, along with Charles-Albert Pfister and Joseph Haynes, founded the École Polytechnique de Montréal. Balète became a math professor and the first director of the school, serving from 1882 to 1908. A tourist region in Mauricie, Quebec, is named after him – Canton Balète.
He died in 1909 in Montreal, Quebec.