• Date Of Birth: 22 September 1931
  • Date Of Death: 4 January 2021
  • Occupation: Historian and writer
  • City: Trois-Rivières
  • State: Quebec

Laurent Mailhot (22 September 1931 – 4 January 2021) was a Canadian historian, writer, professor, essayist, and literary critic.

Born in Saint-Alexis on 22 September 1931, Mailhot studied at the Séminaire de Joliette.[1] He earned a master’s degree from the Université de Montréal and a doctorate from the University of Grenoble. He began teaching at the Université de Montréal in 1963. He was an editor at the journal Études françaises from 1979 to 1987.

Laurent Mailhot died in Trois-Rivières on 4 January 2021 at the age of 89. – Available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License from Wikipedia.