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Asterix, whose adventures have so coloured Druide’s journey and that of our own magic potion, Antidote, has lost his last surviving parent, the great Albert Uderzo. The Druids wish to pay tribute to this towering figure of comic book art. We encourage you to reread Uderzo’s works to...

Druide announces the release of Antidote 10 v3, a free update for Antidote 10 that boasts a host of improvements, including new words, corrections and integrations. More than 1500 words and expressions such as pegan and upcycle have been added in English. Meanwhile, 5300 words such as animoji...

The Association québécoise des professeurs de français (AQPF) and the Association nationale des éditeurs de livres (ANEL) have announced the finalists for the Prix littéraires des enseignants de français AQPF-ANEL. We are pleased to announce that the collection of short stories Mystères à l’école, edited by Richard...

Apple is preparing to release a new edition of its operating system for Mac, called macOS 10.15 Catalina. Druide will be releasing minor updates for Antidote 10 and Antidote 9 in order to adapt them to the new system. We recommend that Antidote users wait for their release...

This week, the Société du roman policier de Saint Pacôme unveiled the three finalists for this year’s Prix Saint-Pacôme. André Jacques stood out for the judges on the panel with his novel Ces femmes aux yeux cernés, his character Alexandre Jobin's most recent case. In 2016, André...

Druide informatique is pleased to announce that it has improved its VÉLOSYMPATHIQUE certification. The panel set up by Vélo Québec has recognized the steps that Druide has taken to promote cycling and has awarded it the silver level VÉLOSYMPATHIQUE certification.

Druide was among the very first organizations to...

A few weeks ago, we were pleased to learn that the writer and journalist Samuel Larochelle had been chosen to be the honorary chair of the 43rd Salon du livre de l’Abitibi-Témiscamingue, the region’s annual book fair, which will be held in Amos from May 23 to 26, 2019....

The Antidote 10 site license for schools, launched today at a conference in Lévis for the Association des informaticiens des Collèges du Québec, allows educational institutions to install this great writing assistance software on all the computers in their IT infrastructure, whatever its size. The price of this...

Every year, Crime Writers of Canada presents the Arthur Ellis Awards for excellence in Canadian crime writing. André Jacques is one of five finalists in the Best Crime Book in French category for his novel Ces femmes aux yeux cernés. The two previous investigations of Jacques’ character Alexandre...

Druide recently published a connectors update to improve the security of Antidote on Windows. Antidote has already invited owners of single-user versions to perform the required update, and now invites owners of multi-user licenses to do the same. Owners of older editions of Antidote, such as Antidote HD...