Charles Céligny Ardouin (1801–1849) was a

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an politician and historian. He served as a Delegate in 1846, Senator, and

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in 1847. In 1847 he also served on the Council of Secretaries of State. Ardouin ran afoul of President

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'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

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, were members of the

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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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* 1806 births 1849 deaths Executed politicians 19th-century Haitian historians Haitian male writers Executed Haitian people 19th-century executions by Haiti Haitian Interior Ministers 19th-century male writers Celigny {{Haiti-historian-stub