Demesvar Delorme

Demesvar Delorme was an eminent 19th-century Haitian intellectual, diplomat, and political philosopher celebrated for his erudition and eloquent defense of Black intellectual capability.

Serving in the cabinet of President Sylvain Salnave as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Public Instruction, Delorme later lived in Paris, where he was an intimate friend of Alexandre Dumas père and Alphonse de Lamartine.

His philosophical treatises 'Les Théoriciens au pouvoir' (The Theorists in Power) and the historical novel 'Francesca' established him as a premier Caribbean political theorist of the 19th century.