Demesvar Delorme 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 theoretician, writer, and politician. Born in Cap-Haïtien

Cap-Haïtien

Cap-Haïtien is a city of about 190,000 people on the north coast of Haiti and capital of the Department of Nord...

, Delorme participated in Sylvain Salnave

Sylvain Salnave

Sylvain Salnave was a Haïtian general. He was the President of Haïti from 1867 to 1869. In 1867 he was elected president after he led the overthrow of President Fabre Geffrard. During his term there were constant civil wars between the various factions.-Footnotes:...

's failed rebellion against President Fabre Geffrard

Fabre Geffrard

Fabre-Nicholas Geffrard was a general in the Haitian army and President of Haiti from 1859 until his deposition in 1867. After collaborating in a coup to remove Faustin Soulouque from power in order to return Haiti back to social and political control of the colored elite, Geffrard was made...

 in 1865. After the fall of Geffrard and Salnave's election as President of Haiti

President of Haiti

The President of the Republic of Haiti is the head of state of Haiti. Executive power in Haiti is divided between the president and the government headed by the Prime Minister of Haiti...

 in 1867, Delorme was appointed Minister of External Relations and later Minister of Public Education and Cults. In 1868, Delorme was forced to leave the country and fled to Paris

Paris

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, France

France

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. He lived there in exile for ten years, publishing several works. One of his best known writings was the essay "Les Théoriciens au Pouvoir", which postulated that political power should belong to the intellectual elite.

Selected works

• "Bulletin de la Révolution" - article, published 1865
• "La Reconnaissance du Général Salnave" - article, published 1868
• "La Démocratie et le Préjugé de Couleur aux Etats-Unis" - article
• "Le Système Monroe" - article, published 1868
• "Les Théoriciens au Pouvoir" - essay, published 1870
• Francesca - novel, published 1873
• "Réflexions Diverses sur Haïti" - essay, published 1873
• "Les Paisibles" - article, published 1874
• Le Damné - novel, published 1877