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Mon Pays
Mon pays (My Country, or My Homeland, in English) is a song composed by Gilles Vigneault in 1964.
The song was written for the NFB film La Neige a fondu sur la Manicouagan, directed by Arthur Lamothe . The song, with its lyrics about winds, cold, snow, and ice, of the solitude of wide open spaces and of the ideal of brotherhood, has become a kind of anthem in Quebec, with many people seeing it as expressing the free spirit of the province; Vigneault, however, has denied that this was ever his intention.
Vigneault won the Prix Félix-Leclerc at the 1965 Festival du disque de Montréal for the song. Later that same year, Monique Leyrac performed it at the International Song Festival in Sopot, Poland, taking first prize with it.
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