Georges Corvington, Jr. (6 November 1926 - 3 April 2013) was a

Haiti Haiti (; ht, Ayiti ; French: ), officially the Republic of Haiti (); ) and formerly known as Hayti, is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and ...

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the stu ...

.Haiti historian who chronicled capital dies at 88
, whig.com, 4 April 2013 He is best known for his seven-volume work on the history of Haiti's capital city,

Port-au-Prince Port-au-Prince ( , ; ht, Pòtoprens ) is the capital and most populous city of Haiti. The city's population was estimated at 987,311 in 2015 with the metropolitan area estimated at a population of 2,618,894. The metropolitan area is define ...

, entitled ''Port-au-Prince au Cours des Ans (Port-au-Prince Over The Years) (1743-1950)''. The book was published from 1970 to 1992.

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