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Mémoires d'un foyalais

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"Notwithstanding their self-serving aspect, these political memoirs of a Martinique political figure, a member of the colored bourgeoisie and a lawyer by training, provide historians with important testimony of a generation whose decisive action in favor of départementalisation stemmed from …

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"Notwithstanding their self-serving aspect, these political memoirs of a Martinique political figure, a member of the colored bourgeoisie and a lawyer by training, provide historians with important testimony of a generation whose decisive action in favor of départementalisation stemmed from their adhesion to France libre during WWII. Beautifully written and filled with interesting observations on 20th-century Martinican society"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

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""Notwithstanding their self-serving aspect, these political memoirs of a Martinique political figure, a member of the colored bourgeoisie and a lawyer by training, provide historians with important testimony of a …"

— Margaret

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