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François Duvalier (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swa dyvalje]; 14 April 1907 – 21 April 1971), also known as Papa Doc, was a Haitian politician who served as the president of Haiti from 1957 until his death in 1971. He was elected president in the 1957 general election on a populist and black nationalist platform.
Jun 19, 2009 · Dr. François Duvalier, also known as “Papa Doc,” was the president of Haiti from 1957 to 1971. His regime was notorious for its autocratic and corrupt rule. Born on April 14, 1907 in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, François Duvalier was the son of Duval Duvalier and Uritia Abraham.
Apr 23, 1971 · After studying at the Lycée National, he en rolled in the University of Haiti School of Medicine, from which he was graduated in 1934. For some years Dr. Duvalier served on the staffs of local...
François Duvalier ( b. 14 April 1907; d. 21 April 1971), president of Haiti (1957–1971). A noir (black), Duvalier was born in Port-au-Prince; his father was an elementary schoolteacher and his mother a bakery worker. His formal education included elementary and secondary school at the Lycée Pétion and a medical degree from the École de ...
For this reason, we carry out a psychobiography, a type of at-a-distance approach, to assess the leadership of François Duvalier and better understand how a physician charged with healing human ails, transforms into a political dictator that does not hesitate to take human life to enhance his own.
May 28, 2020 · Read this article. The historiography on the François Duvalier regime in Haiti (1957–1971) tends to focus on Duvalier's wanton use of violence and generally overlooks questions of governance, stressing or inferring that Duvalier was a solitary despot. This article is resolutely revisionist and argues that Duvalier (1) did not govern alone ...
Auteur: Belleau Jean-Philippe. President of Haiti from October 22, 1957 to April 21, 1971. First trained as a physician, François Duvalier became an ethnologist with the guidance of Lorimer Denis, a voodoo specialist, who facilitated his admission to the Bureau d’Ethnologie (Ethnological Bureau), which later became the Faculté d ...
