Demesvar Delorme (10 February 1831 – 25 December 1901) was a

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an theoretician, writer, and politician. Born in

Cap-Haïtien Cap-Haïtien (; ht, Kap Ayisyen; "Haitian Cape"), typically spelled Cape Haitien in English and often locally referred to as or , is a commune of about 190,000 people on the north coast of Haiti and capital of the department of Nord. Previousl ...

, he participated in

Sylvain Salnave Sylvain Salnave (February 6, 1827 – January 15, 1870) was a Haitian general who served as the President of Haïti from 1867 to 1869. He was elected president after he led the overthrow of President Fabre Geffrard. During his term there were cons ...

's failed rebellion against President

Fabre Geffrard Guillaume Fabre Nicolas Geffrard (19 September 1806 – 31 December 1878) was a Mulatto Haitians, mulatto general in the Haitian Military of Haiti, army and President of Haiti from 1859 until his deposition in 1867. On 18 April 1852, Fausti ...

in 1865. After the fall of Geffrard and Salnave's election as

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in 1867, he was appointed

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and Minister of Public Education and Cults. In 1868, he was forced to leave the country and fled to

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, France, where he lived in exile for ten years, publishing several works. One of his best known writings was the essay "Les Théoriciens au Pouvoir", which postulated that political power should belong to the intellectual elite. From 1891–1897, he was the first resident minister in

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with coacredition to the

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. In Rome he represented with Jean Joseph Dalbémar the government of Haiti in a case of border

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under the auspicies of

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, while the government of

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was represented by Justino Faszowicz Baron de Farensbach and Tobias C. Bringmann, Handbuch der Diplomatie 1815-1963: Auswärtige Missionschefs in Deutschland
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Selected works

* "Bulletin de la Révolution" - article, published 1865 * "La Reconnaissance du Général Salnave" - article, published 1868 * "La Démocratie et le Préjugé de Couleur aux Etats-Unis" - article * "Le Système Monroe" - article, published 1868 * "Les Théoriciens au Pouvoir" - essay, published 1870 * ''Francesca'' - novel, published 1873 * "Réflexions Diverses sur Haïti" - essay, published 1873 * "Les Paisibles" - article, published 1874 * ''Le Damné'' - novel, published 1877

References

* 1831 births 1901 deaths Haitian essayists Male essayists Haitian journalists 19th-century Haitian novelists Haitian male novelists People from Cap-Haïtien Foreign ministers of Haiti Government ministers of Haiti 19th-century essayists 19th-century male writers Ambassadors of Haiti to the Holy See Ambassadors of Haiti to Germany {{Haiti-politician-stub