Qu'avez-vous fait de ma ville? Qu'en dirait l'illustre Georges Corvington
What Have You Done to My City? What would the illustrious Georges Corvington say By Patrick Prézeau Stephenson (le français suit) Port-au-Prince, over the years, is a rich collection bequeathed to posterity by the illustrious Georges Corvington. From Port-au-Prince over the Years: The Colonial City and Revolutionary Convulsions, 1743-1789 to The Capital of Haiti under American Occupation, 1915-1934 , passing through Under the Assaults of the Revolution: 1789-1804 and The Haitian Metropolis of the 19th Century: 1804-1888 , the historian takes the reader by the hand and makes them travel through the Port-au-Prince of yesteryear. In seven volumes of history, Georges Corvington, born on November 6, 1926, in Port-au-Prince, confides extensively about this capital that he held close to his heart all his life. Corvington presented the city, its population, its geography, its customs, its cultural practices, and its codes. As an observer and social historian, he...