Damase Pierre-Louis (1894–1945) was a Haitian historian, statesman, author, journalist and diplomat. Pierre-Louis was born in Borgne, northern

Haiti Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of the Bahamas. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island, which it shares with the Dominican ...

. He worked as a teacher of English at Collège Notre-Dame du Perpetuel Secours in Cap-Haitian, Haiti. He earned a

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and was a lawyer as well. He also was a journalist and a diplomat, serving as the ambassador to France. He is best known for his political writing. He was candidate to senate for the department of North, Haiti in 1933. He died in prison in 1945.

Selected works

* Le President Borno et la Liberation du territoire (1924) * Les mensonges de notre democratie (1933) * Pouvoir et Politique (1934)

References

* Schutt-Ainé, Patricia; Staff of Librairie Au Service de la Culture (1994). Haiti: A Basic Reference Book. Miami, Florida: Librairie Au Service de la Culture. p. 103. . * Delince, Kern ; Quelle armee pour Haiti?: Militarisme et democratie, Publisher: Pegasus Books (distributor) (1994), {{DEFAULTSORT:Pierre-Louis, Damase 1894 births 1945 deaths 20th-century Haitian historians 20th-century Haitian male writers People from Nord (Haitian department) Haitian diplomats Ambassadors of Haiti to France Haitian people who died in prison custody Prisoners who died in Haitian detention