Louis-Joseph Janvier was a Haiti

Haiti

Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Caribbean country. It occupies the western, smaller portion of the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antillean archipelago, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Ayiti was the indigenous Taíno or Amerindian name for the island...

an journalist and novelist.

Born in Port-au-Prince

Port-au-Prince

Port-au-Prince is the capital and largest city of the Caribbean nation of Haiti. The city's population was 704,776 as of the 2003 census, and was officially estimated to have reached 897,859 in 2009....

, Janvier attended medical school in Haiti. He then moved to France

France

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 to finish his education, and received a doctorate

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 in medicine there in 1881. He also earned a law license and degrees in administration, economics, finance, and diplomacy. While in Paris

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, Janvier became interested in journalism and wrote several articles, such as "La République d'Haïti et ses Visiteurs", "Haïti aux Haïtiens", and "L'Egalité des Races." He also wrote several novels about Haitian life. He remained in France for twenty-eight years, returning to Haiti once before dying in Paris at age fifty-five.

Selected works

• "La République d'Haïti et ses Visiteurs" (1883) - article, "The Republic of Haiti and Its Visitors"
• "L'Egalité des Races" (1884) - article, "The Equality of Races"
• "Haïti aux Haïtiens" (1884) - article, "Haiti for the Haitians"
• "Les Affaires d'Haiti" (1885) - historical article
• Les Constitutions d'Haïti (1886) - The Constitutions of Haiti
• Le Vieux Piquet (1888) - novel
• Une Chercheuse (1889) - novel
• Elections Legislatives de 1908 (1908) in the Digital Library of the Caribbean