What is "brossard"

Brossard ( or ; , or ) is a municipality in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada and is part of the Greater Montreal area. According to the 2011 census, Brossard's population was 79,273. Prior to 2006, Brossard was formerly a borough of the municipality of Longueuil.

Brossard is a suburb of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Brossard may also refer to:

• Brossard (surname)
  • Sébastien de Brossard, French composer
• Terminus Brossard-Panama (AMT), bus terminus in Brossard
• Brossard—La Prairie, Canadian federal electoral district
• Brossard-Mopin, French construction company active in the Far East from 1890s to 1940s.

Brossard is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Chandler Brossard (1922–1993), American novelist, writer, editor, and teacher
• Geneviève Brossard de Beaulieu (fl. c. 1770-1815), French painter
• Georges Brossard (born 1940), Canadian entomologist
• Nicole Brossard (born 1943), French Canadian formalist poet and novelist

Fictional characters:

• Pierre Brossard, a fictional character in the novel The Statement, by Brian Moore, and the film adaptation