150 years after his birth, Haiti honors Jean Price-Mars
Le Nouvelliste marks the sesquicentennial of the physician, ethnologist and statesman regarded as Haiti's leading 20th-century thinker.
Haiti is commemorating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Jean Price-Mars, born October 15, 1876, in Grande-Rivière-du-Nord, according to Le Nouvelliste. A physician, ethnologist, anthropologist, diplomat, senator and minister, Price-Mars lived nearly a century before dying in Pétion-Ville on March 1, 1969, the newspaper reports. In the first of a planned series of articles, Le Nouvelliste revisits what it describes as his eventful life. The outlet cites a notice on the 'Île en île' website, authored by Gérarde Magloire, which presents Price-Mars as 'the principal Haitian thinker of the 20th century.' Le Nouvelliste also references a 1965 interview Price-Mars gave to journalist Jean Dominique of Radio Haïti, in which he reflected on several stages of his own life. The commemorative coverage spans his multiple careers across medicine, diplomacy, parliament and the study of Haitian culture. Further details of the article are available to registered Le Nouvelliste readers. The paper notes additional related tributes, including homage paid to writer René Depestre at Lézignan-Corbières.