Justin Lhérisson

Justin Lhérisson was born in Port-au-Prince on 10 February 1873. A lawyer, he became a journalist, founded the daily Le Soir and taught history. He also published poetry collections. In 1903, for the centenary of independence, he wrote the words of La Dessalinienne, selected by the jury together with the music of Nicolas Geffrard and subsequently adopted as the national anthem. From 1899, he published in his newspaper the first written lodyans, those short tales of Haitian storytellers. He died on 15 November 1907.

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• NovelLa Famille des Pitite-CailleJustin Lhérisson · 1905not translated into EnglishLiterature