Lucienne Heurtelou (c. 1921 – May 19, 2006) was a

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an diplomat, women's rights advocate, author, and First Lady of Haiti 1946-1950 as the wife of Haitian President

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. She was honorary President of the Ligue Féminine d'Action sociale (

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), an influential Haitian feminist organization created in 1934, during its First Congress of Haitian Women (April 14–19, 1950). The Congress attracted delegates of 44 Haitian women's organizations and 32 delegates of 17 international women's organizations and relaunched the Haitian women's movement for equal rights. In October 1948, she inaugurated an orphanage in Truittier, near

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, which was never completed. She is the first Haitian First Lady to have written her memoirs, a book in which she delves into the undoing of her husband's presidency by his political enemies. She became Haiti's first female ambassador to Belgium after her husband's death in 1953. She was the mother of former Haitian government official

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. She died on May 19, 2006 at age 85, gunned down in the robbery of the jewelry store of the Daccaret family on Dufort street in Port-au-Prince.

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2006 deaths First ladies and gentlemen of Haiti Ambassadors of Haiti to Belgium Haitian women diplomats Year of birth uncertain 1920s births Women ambassadors 20th-century diplomats Deaths by firearm in Haiti {{Haiti-diplomat-stub