[1] He was educated at parish schools in Repentigny, before enrolling at Collège de l'Assomption in 1947.
[2] In 1955, he moved to Université de Montreal and became an officer in the Canadian Army's Armoured Corps.
He would later serve as the vice-president and president of the Société de philosophie de Québec Brouillet joined the Parti Québécois in 1971 and worked behind the scenes before he was elected to the National Assembly in the 1981 election, in which the Parti Québécois formed the government.
During this period, he served as the party's head representative in Chauveau and the larger Chaudiere-Appalaches region.
[1] Brouillet would return to office in the 1994 election, in which the Parti Québécois swept back into power.