Charles Céligny Ardouin (July 6, 1801 – August 7, 1849) was a
Haiti
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an politician and historian. He served as a Delegate in 1846, Senator, and
Minister of the Interior
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in 1847. In 1847 he also served on the
Council of Secretaries of State. Ardouin ran afoul of President
Soulouque's government and was executed in 1849.
Céligny Ardouin's brothers,
Beaubrun and
Coriolan, were also well-known, Beaubrun as a politician and historian, Coriolan as a poet. The three Ardouin brothers, along with the Nau brothers,
Emile and
Ignace, were members of the
literary society
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"
The School of 1836
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," which was founded by Ignace Nau. Céligny's best known historical work, ''Essais sur l'Histoire d'Haïti'' (''Essays on the History of Haiti''), was first published in its entirety posthumously in 1865 by his brother Beaubrun.
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1801 births
1849 deaths
Executed politicians
19th-century Haitian historians
Executed Haitian people
19th-century executions by Haiti
Interior ministers of Haiti
19th-century Haitian male writers
Celigny
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