Between 1957 and 1986, thousands of Haitians fled their country and its dictatorship. Among them were a number of intellectuals who had been critical of the Duvalier Regime and who chose to come to Quebec to launch or pursue their careers in French. This is how Jean-Joseph Moisset arrived in Québec City in 1978, where he embarked on a brilliant career as a professor of education at Université Laval.