Joseph Saint-Rémy (c. 1818–1856) was a
Haitian historian. He is best known for his biography La Vie de Toussaint Louverture about the
Haitian Revolution leader
Toussaint L'Ouverture, and for his work Pétion et Haïti, about another Revolutionary figure,
Alexandre Pétion. Born in
Guadeloupe, Saint-Rémy emigrated to Haiti as a young child and grew up in
Les Cayes before leaving for school in
France.
Selected works
La Vie de Toussaint Louverture
Pétion et Haïti
Les Mémoires de Boirond-Tonnerre
Les Mémoires deToussaint Louverture
References
Schutt-Ainé, Patricia (1994). Haiti: A Basic Reference Book. Miami, Florida: Librairie Au Service de la Culture. p. 93.
ISBN0-9638599-0-0.
Menos, Solon; Dantès Bellegarde; A. Duval; Georges Sylvain (1904). Auteurs Haitiens, Morceaux Choisis. Port-au-Prince, Haiti: Imprimerie de M F. Smith. p. 14.