Edmond Laforest
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Edmond Laforest (20 June 1876 – 17 October 1915)[1] was a Haitian poet.
Life and works
Born in Jérémie, Laforest was a teacher of French and mathematics. Some of his most noted works are Poèmes Mélancoliques (1901), Sonnets-Médaillons (1909), and Cendres et Flammes.
He killed himself by tying a Larousse dictionary around his neck and jumping off a bridge, to expose how the French language, imposed upon him by colonists, had killed him artistically.[2]
References
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