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Alfred Auguste Nemours

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Name
  
Alfred Nemours

Died
  
October 17, 1955

Alfred Auguste Nemours (13 July 1883 - 17 October 1955) was a Haitian General, diplomat and military historian.

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Biography

He was born into a wealthy family in Cap-Haitien, northern Haiti. His father was Nemours Auguste and his mother Ametise Albaret. He adopted Nemours as his principal name later in life. Alfred was sent to the Lycee in Paris, followed by the military academy Saint-Cyr.

During the American occupation of Haiti, Auguste Nemours wrote his Histoire Militaire.

He was the Haitian delegate to the 7th (1926), 9th (1928) and 16th (1935) Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the League of Nations, held in Geneva.

C. L. R. James met Nemours in Paris when he was writing The Black Jacobins (1938).

Publications

  • 1909: Sur le choix d'une discipline: l'anglo-saxonne ou la francaise
  • 1925: Histoire militaire de la guerre d'independance de Saint-Domingue
  • 1926: Les Borno dans l'histoire d'Haiti
  • 1927: Princesses creoles (with Claude Farrere)
  • 1941: Les Premiers citoyens et les premiers deputes noirs et de couleur: la loi du 4 avril 1792, ses precedents, sa premiere application a Saint-Domingue, d'apres des documents inedits de l'epoque, suivi de : Le Cap Francais en 1792, a l'arrivee de Sonthonax, d'apres des documents inedits de l'epoque
  • 1945: La Charte des Nations Unies: etude comparative de la Charte avec les propositions de Dumbarton Oaks, le covenant de la Societe des Nations, les conventions de la Haye, les propositions et doctrines inter americaines

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    Alfred Auguste Nemours Wikipedia
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