François Paul Étienne Azéma (15 January 1778 – 28 August 1851 in

Saint-Denis, Réunion Saint-Denis (, , unofficially Saint-Denis de La Réunion for disambiguation; ) is the prefecture (administrative capital) of the French overseas department and region of Réunion, in the Indian Ocean. It is located at the island's northernmos ...

, on the island of

Réunion Réunion (; french: La Réunion, ; previously ''Île Bourbon''; rcf, label= Reunionese Creole, La Rényon) is an island in the Indian Ocean that is an overseas department and region of France. It is located approximately east of the island ...

) was a French poet, playwright, and writer of

fable Fable is a literary genre: a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized, and that illustrates or leads to a particular mor ...

s. He was a magistrate, delegated to the island by the Ministre de la Marine, and as a writer was well known for his play ''Médée''. He was a descendant of

Jean-Baptiste Azéma Jean-Baptiste Azéma was a French administrator; he served as the governor of Réunion from May 15 to October 31, 1745. His son was the writer Étienne Azéma; other descendants have included Georges Azéma, a historian; Mazaé Azéma, a doctor; ...

, a former governor of the island; he was the father of

Georges Azéma Georges Azéma (died May 9, 1864) was a French historian from Réunion. Son of the writer Étienne Azéma and brother to the doctor Mazaé Azéma, his son Henri was also a doctor; his grandfather Jean-Baptiste Azéma had briefly served as gover ...

, a historian, and

Mazaé Azéma François Jean-Pierre Henri Azéma, called Mazaé Azéma, was a French politician and doctor of Réunionnais birth. Born in Saint-Denis on 17 July 1823, he died on 28 July 1886. He was a surgeon who had studied urology. From 1862 till 1870, h ...

, a doctor. His grandson was the doctor

Henri Azéma Joseph Jean Stéphen Henri Azéma (18 October 1861 in Saint-Denis – ?) was a medical doctor from Réunion. He was the son of historian Georges Azéma, and also served as a local councillor on Réunion. His maternal uncle was the journalist Lo ...

; other descendants include the poet Jean-Henri Azéma and the historian

Jean-Pierre Azéma Jean-Pierre Azéma (born 1937) is a French historian. Azéma is a member of the scientific counsel for the Institut François Mitterrand, an organisation founded by François Mitterrand with the goal of "contributing to the propagation of knowledg ...

. He was made Chevalier of the

Legion of Honour The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon ...

in 1850.culture.gouv.fr : certificate of the legion of honour
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