Alix Mathon (9 October 1908 – 4 May 1985) was a

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an novelist, lawyer, politician, and journalist. He received the France-Haïti prize for his novel ''La Fin des Baïonnettes'', which described the events leading up to the United States' occupation of Haiti. Other notable novels by Mathon are ''Le Drapeau en Berne'' (1974), ''Témoignages sur les Evénements de 1957'', and ''La Reléve de Charlemagne''.

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