Léon Laleau

Léon Laleau was born in Port-au-Prince on 3 August 1892. A pupil at the Lycée Pétion, where Fernand Hibbert was his teacher, he took his law degree in 1912 but chose letters and diplomacy. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs and represented his country in Rome, London, Paris, Santiago and Lima; it was he who signed, on 24 July 1934, the agreement that ended the American occupation. He died on 7 September 1979.

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• PoetryMusique nègreLéon Laleau · 1931not translated into EnglishLiterature