of Quebec's Salvation, Guarantee of Peace for Canada by Doris Lussier, excerpted from an interview he gave to Échos-Vedettes on November 11, 1967. Appendix 7 (Operation Panic) analyzes the flight of capital from Quebec which made the news soon after October 18, 1967, which is to say just after René Lévesque released the manifesto that forms the first part of An Option for Quebec. Reception More than 50,000 copies of Option Québec, the French-language original, were sold in the weeks after its release. Even before its publication, the Liberal Party of Quebec gave a flat refusal to the constitutional option promoted by René Lévesque in his essay. The party instead resolved on a special status for Quebec in a reformed Canadian federation, as recommended in Paul Gérin-Lajoie's October 1967 report. The Union Nationale, as well as the main federal political parties of Canada equally opposed it. Editions The first French-language edition was published in 1968 at Éditions de l'Homme in Montreal and Laffont in Paris. The work was reprinted in Montreal in 1988, preceded by an essay of political scientist André Bernard entitled Option Québec 1968-1988. Another edition was published in 1997 by TYPO, preceded by an updated version of André Bernard's essay. In English translation, the book was published by McClelland & Stewart in 1968 and again in 1977, after the election of the Parti Québécois. Notes References Graham Fraser (2001). René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois in Power, McGill-Queen's Press, 434 p. (preview) Gilles Lesage, "L’option Lévesque, 30 ans plus tard ", in Le Devoir, January 17, 1998, p. A10. André Bernard, "Option Québec 1968-1997", first part of René Lévesque, et al., Option Québec, Édition Typo, 1997, 352 p. Political history of Quebec Canadian political books René Lévesque 1968 non-fiction books McClelland & Stewart books 1968 essays