[2] He was born on April 28, 1930, in Saint-Jérôme, Quebec, and made a career in education.
Proulx won a seat in the 1966 Quebec election in the district of Saint-Jean as a member of the Union Nationale.
In November 1969 he left his party to protest the passage of Bill 63,[3] a controversial language law, sitting first as an independent, and then fifteen days later joining the Parti Québécois (PQ).
He ran as a PQ candidate in 1970 and 1973, but lost both times.
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