Alfred Auguste Nemours


Alfred Auguste Nemours was a Haitian General, diplomat and military historian.

Biography

He was born into a wealthy family in Cap-Haïtien, northern Haiti. His father was Nemours Auguste and his mother Amétise Albaret. He adopted Nemours as his principal name later in life.
Alfred was sent to the Lycee in Paris, followed by the military academy Saint-Cyr.
During the United States occupation of Haiti, Auguste Nemours wrote his Histoire Militaire.
He was the Haitian delegate to the 7th, 9th and 16th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the League of Nations, held in Geneva.
As a noted speaker at the League of Nations in Geneva, Nemours pronounced these words soon to become well-known on the question of the invasion of Ethiopia by Mussolini's fascist troops,
Fear to ever become someone's Ethiopia.
C. L. R. James met Nemours in Paris when he was writing The Black Jacobins.

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