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Masson may refer to:
Masson is a provincial electoral district in Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It includes portions of the city of Mascouche and part of the city of Terrebonne (corresponding to the former city of La Plaine).
It was created for the 1989 election from parts of the Terrebonne and L'Assomption electoral districts.
In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, it lost Charlemagne and the part of Repentigny it formerly had to the L'Assomption electoral district.
Masson is a French and Scottish surname, which is an example of convergent etymology in that the French Masson may derive from marsh dweller and the Scottish from MacMhathain (clan of the bear) (variants include Maçon, Mâcon, Mason), and may refer to:
- André Masson (1896–1987), a French artist
- André Masson (economist), a French economist
- Angela Masson (born 1951), an American pilot and artist
- Antoine Masson (1636–1700), a French engraver
- David Masson (1822–1907), a Scottish writer
- David I. Masson (1917–2007), a Scottish science-fiction writer and librarian, grandson of David Orme Masson
- David Orme Masson (1858–1937), an Australian chemist, son of David Masson
- David Parkes Masson (1847-1915), a wealthy banker in India and distinguished philatelist
- Didier Masson (?–1950), a French pilot
- Diego Masson (born 1935), a French conductor, composer and percussionist
- Édouard Masson (1826–1875), a Canadian businessman and political figure
- Forbes Masson (born 1963), a British actor
- Francis Masson (1741–1805), a Scottish botanist and gardener
- Frédéric Masson (1847–1923), a French historian
- Gérard Masson (born 1936), a French composer
- Jean Papire Masson (1544–1611), a French scholar
- Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (born 1941), a writer on Freudian psychoanalysis
- Joseph Masson (1791–1847), a Canadian businessman
- Laetitia Masson (born 1966), a French film director and screenwriter
- Maxime Masson (priest) (1867-1960), pastor for 52 years at the Catholic parish of Sainte-Thècle, Quebec, Canada
- Paul Masson (1859–1940), a pioneer of California viticulture
- Paul Masson (cyclist) (1874–1945), a French cyclist and 1896 Summer Olympian
- Robert le Masson, a supporter of Joan of Arc
- Rodrigue Masson (1833–1903), a Canadian politician
- Sophie Masson (born 1959), a French-Australian author
- Thomas Masson (born 1866), an American editor and author
Category:French-language surnames
Masson was a French publisher specialised in medical and scientific collections. In 1987, Masson purchased Armand Colin. In turn, it became part of the City Group in 1994. In 2005, Masson merged with Elsevier France, creating Elsevier Masson.
Usage examples of "masson".
Generations ago they had come up from the wharves and settled in the graveyard, a colony of abnormally large rats, and when Masson had taken charge after the inexplicable disappearance of the former caretaker, he decided that they must go.
And while some of the gnawed, empty coffins could be attributed to the activities of the rats, Masson might find it difficult to explain the mutilated bodies that lay in some of the coffins.
The rats had retreated to their burrows, and Masson had not seen one for days.
But he would hardly come at this late hour, no matter how much grief he might be suffering, Masson thought, grinning wryly.
For a moment a pang of superstitious fear shot through Masson, and then rage replaced it as he realised the significance of the sound.
A black shoe, limp and dragging, was disappearing as Masson watched, and abruptly he realised that the rats had forestalled him by only a few minutes.
Probably if the corpse had been an ordinary one Masson would have left the rats with their spoils rather than venture into the narrow burrow, but he remembered an especially fine set of cufflinks he had observed, as well as a stickpin that was undoubtedly a genuine pearl.
If he could not reach the corpse in a minute, Masson decided, he would turn back.
Flashing the light behind him, Masson caught his breath in a sob of fear as he saw a dozen great rats watching him intently, their slitted eyes glittering in the light.
This time the rats did not retreat so far, but Masson was crawling as swiftly as he could along the burrow, ready to fire again at the first sound of another attack.
It made a faint groaning sound as it crawled towards Masson, stretching its ragged and granulated lips in a grin of dreadful hunger.
Horror touched him, Masson flung himself frantically into the burrow at his side.
The central figure in this massacre is Etienne Masson, the leader of a tribe, for lack of a better word, that controls a large piece of rain forest surrounding Jacmel.
This is the first time that anyone outside of Haiti has seen Masson in nine years.
The SEALS operated under the assumption that Masson and his men were as well trained and disciplined as they were.