Coriolan Ardouin

Coriolan Ardouin was born on 11 December 1812 in Petit-Trou-de-Nippes, on the southern peninsula, the son of Alexis Ardouin and Suzanne Léger. He lost his father in 1824, his mother in 1828, then one of his sisters, and the young woman he had married died a few months after their wedding. He studied at the institution of Jonathas Granville, where he formed a friendship with the poet Ignace Nau. His brothers Beaubrun and Céligny were historians and politicians. He died in Port-au-Prince on 12 July 1835.

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• PoetryReliques d'un poète haïtienCoriolan Ardouin · 1837not translated into EnglishLiterature