Alfred Auguste Nemours
| Alfred Auguste Nemours | |
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| Haitian ambassador to France | |
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In office 1926 – 1930 |
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| Preceded by | Dantès Bellegarde |
| Succeeded by | Constantin Mayard (1882-1940) |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
July 13, 1883 Cap-Haïtien |
| Died | October 17, 1955 (aged 72) Rome |
| Children | Charles Maurice Nemours, Lilas Nemours Auguste |
| Mother | Améthyste Albaret |
| Father | Nemours Auguste |
Alfred Auguste Nemours (13 July 1883 - 17 October 1955) was a Haitian General, diplomat and military historian.
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 American occupation of Haiti, Auguste Nemours wrote his Histoire Militaire.
He was the Haitian delegate to the 7th (1926), 9th (1928) and 16th (1935) 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,
Craignez d'être un jour l'Ethiopie de quelqu'un.
Fear someone, some day is Ethiopia.
C. L. R. James met Nemours in Paris when he was writing The Black Jacobins (1938).
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