Jean René Baroux (1922–1992) was a Morocco-born veteran of World War II and a writer very much engaged in the evolution of the French language.
While a member of the Science Council of Canada (Director of Communications), in 1976 he founded the Association Québécoise des Professionnels de la Communication Scientifique (AQPCS), a complementary extension to the Canadian Scientific Writers Association.
A veteran of the North African Corp from Morocco, he participated in the liberation of Italy first, and then France, from German occupation.
He was also one of the soldiers who reached the demolished abbey, having been directly involved in the final, and decisive assault on German forces ensconced in the Benedictine Monastery.
He survived through another year of battle, moving North attacking the retreating German forces, through Gap, then Grenoble and on to Paris.