Alfred Auguste Nemours
Alfred Auguste Nemours (13 July 1883 - 17 October 1955) was a Haitian General, diplomat and military historian.
Biography
He was born into a wealthy family in Cap-Haïtien, northern Haiti. His father was Nemours Auguste and his mother Amétise Albaret. He adopted Nemours as his principal name later in life.[1] 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.[2]
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.[3][4][5]
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 française
- 1925: Histoire militaire de la guerre d'independance de Saint-Domingue
- 1926: Les Borno dans l'histoire d'Haiti
- 1927: Princesses créoles (with Claude Farrère)
- 1941: Les Premiers citoyens et les premiers députés noirs et de couleur: la loi du 4 avril 1792, ses précédents, sa première application à Saint-Domingue, d'après des documents inédits de l'époque, suivi de : Le Cap Français en 1792, à l'arrivée de Sonthonax, d'après des documents inédits de l'époque
- 1945: La Charte des Nations Unies: étude comparative de la Charte avec les propositions de Dumbarton Oaks, le covenant de la Société des Nations, les conventions de la Haye, les propositions et doctrines inter américaines
References
- ^ Dupuis, Charles. "Le général Nemours".
- ^ Higman B. W. (1999), UNESCO General History of the Caribbean - Volume VI: Methodology and Historiography of the Caribbean: 6.
- ^ Sevennth Ordinary Session of the Assembly, Geneva, September 6 - September 25, 1926; accessed 25 May 2012.
- ^ Ninth Ordinary Session of the Assembly, Geneva, September 3 - September 26, 1928 accessed 25 May 2012
- ^ Sixteenth Ordinary Session of the Assembly, Geneva, September 9 - October 11, 1935; accessed 25 May 2012.