The Chénier Cell was a Montreal-based cell of the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) terrorist group in Quebec whose members were responsible for a decade of bombings and armed robberies in the 1960s that led to what became known as the October Crisis. The Chénier cell was named after the rebel hero of the Lower Canada Rebellion Jean-Olivier Chénier.
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“Why inspire in us a horror of our being?... To look upon the universe as a prison cell and all men as criminals about to be executed is the idea of a fanatic.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)