Editing Jeanne Sauvé (section)

==Early life, youth, and first career==
Sauvé was born in the [[Fransaskois]] community of [[Prud'homme, Saskatchewan]], to Charles Albert Benoît and Anna Vaillant, and three years later moved with them to [[Ottawa]], where her family had previously lived. In Ottawa, her father would take her to see the bronze bust on [[Parliament Hill]] of Canada's first female [[Member of Parliament (Canada)|Member of Parliament]] (MP), [[Agnes Macphail]].<ref name=CBCAchieve>{{cite web| url=http://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/jeanne-sauves-early-years| title=CBC Digital Archives > Politics > Federal Politics > Their Excellencies: Canada's Governors General Since 1952 > Jeanne Sauvé's Early Years| date=February 9, 2005| publisher=CBC| access-date=June 15, 2015}}</ref> Sauvé studied at Notre Dame du Rosaire Convent in Ottawa, becoming head of her class in her first year, and continued her education at the [[University of Ottawa]], working for the [[government of Canada]] as a translator in order to pay her tuition. At the same time, Sauvé actively involved herself in student and political affairs; at the age of 20, she became the national president of the Young Catholic Students Group, which employed her in 1942, necessitating her move to [[Montreal]].<ref name=CBCAchieve />
[[File:Place de la Sorbonne, Paris 27 March 2017.jpg|thumb|left|The [[Sorbonne (building)|Sorbonne]] in Paris, where Sauvé obtained her degree in [[Culture of France|French civilization]]]]

It was there that Sauvé met [[Maurice Sauvé]], and the two married on September 24, 1948, the same year the couple moved to London; Maurice had obtained a scholarship to the [[London School of Economics]], and Sauvé worked as a teacher and tutor. Two years later, they moved to Paris, where Sauvé was employed as the assistant to the director of the Youth Secretariat at [[UNESCO]], and in 1951, she enrolled for one year at the [[University of Paris|Sorbonne]], graduating with a degree in [[Culture of France|French civilization]]. Sauvé and her husband returned to Canada near the end of 1952,<ref name=CBCAchieve /> where the couple settled in [[Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec]], and in 1959 had one child, Jean-François. Sauvé then became a founding member of the [[Institute of Political Research]] and was hired as a journalist and broadcaster with the [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]]'s French-language broadcaster, [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|Radio-Canada]].<ref name=CBCJournal>{{cite web| url=http://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/journalist-jeanne-sauve| title=CBC Digital Archives > Politics > Federal Politics > Jeanne Sauvé, a Woman of Firsts > Journalist Jeanne Sauvé| date=July 24, 2006| publisher=CBC| access-date=June 15, 2015}}</ref>

After success on her first radio programme, ''Fémina'', Sauvé was moved to CBC television and focused her efforts on covering political topics on both radio and television, in both English and French. She soon drew attention to herself and was frequently invited by her friend [[Gérard Pelletier]] as a panellist on the controversial show ''Les Idées en Marche'', there revealing her left-wing political ideologies. This absorption of a woman into the traditionally male world of political journalism and commentary was unusual, yet Sauvé managed to be taken seriously, even being given her own television show, ''Opinions'', which covered "such taboo subjects as teenage sex, parental authority, and student discipline". On air from 1956 to 1963, "it was the show that made Jeanne famous".<ref name=HEx>{{cite book| last=Woods| first=Shirley| title=Her Excellency Jeanne Sauvé| publisher=Formac Publishing Company Ltd.| date=January 1, 1987| location=Halifax, Nova Scotia| isbn=978-0-88780-149-5| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/herexcellencyjea00shir}}</ref> However, Sauvé also attracted negative attention due to her husband's eventual elevation as a [[Minister of the Crown|Crown minister]]; in a piece in ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative]] MP [[Louis-Joseph Pigeon]] expressed concern over the wife of a minister being paid "fabulous sums by the CBC", calling the circumstances a "shame and a scandal".<ref name=CBCJournal/>