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Gravel was born on May 13, 1930, in Springfield, Massachusetts, one of five children of French-Canadian immigrant parents, Alphonse and Marie (née Bourassa) Gravel. [1] [2] [3] His parents were part of the Quebec diaspora, [4] and he was raised in a working-class neighborhood [5] during the Great Depression, [3] speaking only French until he was seven years old. [6]