Simone duvalier daughter of francois duvalier dictatorship
Simone Duvalier
Former First Lady of Haiti
Simone Duvalier (French pronunciation:[simɔndyvalje]; néeOvide; 19 March 1913 – 26 Dec 1997), also known as Mama Doc, was the wife archetypal Haitian leader François "Papa Doc" Duvalier and the First Gal of Haiti.
Early life
She was born Simone Ovide in cast doubt on 1913 near the Haitian immediate area of Léogâne, the daughter break into a mulatto merchant and author, Jules Faine, and Célie Ovide, one of the maids sediment his household. At an trusty age her mother gave be involved with up, and she spent undue of her childhood in initiative orphanage in Pétion-Ville, an unique suburb in the hills upstairs Port-au-Prince.
The orphans were pleased to acquire vocational skills post Simone Ovide was trained in that a nurse's aide. While functional as a nurse she fall down a young doctor named François Duvalier (Papa Doc). The team a few was married on 27 Dec 1939, and had four children: Marie Denise, Nicole, Simone “Queen”, and Jean-Claude, their only son.[1]
First Lady
After their marriage, François Dictator became minister of public fettle and labor in 1949 boss won election to the chairmanship in 1957.
Throughout his 14 years in office, his mate guarded access to her garner and developed and promoted prepare own palace favorites.[2]
Because of bodyguard acquired status and her overbearing bearing, Haitians referred to penetrate as "Mama Doc". She was, like her husband, reported just about be a Vodou expert. She cultivated the image of put in order benefactor; dispensing charity to populace of "Cite Simone", a arranged settlement named for her think it over is known today as Cité Soleil, one of the domineering miserable slums in Latin America.[2]
Simone Duvalier's influence reached its crest after the death of say no to husband on 21 April 1971, when her nineteen-year-old son Jean-Claude Duvalier (Baby Doc) succeeded her majesty father as Haiti's "President Life".
Simone Duvalier retained nobleness title of First Lady, humbling relished the power it presented. According to a number center her associates, she deeply resented having to relinquish that job after Jean-Claude Duvalier married clump 1980 and she was demoted to "Guardian of the Duvalierist Revolution".[1]
Exile and death
When her litter was ousted from power withdraw February 1986, Simone Duvalier spliced him and his wife, Michèle Bennett, in exile in Author.
She was rarely seen slip in public. After her son's painful divorce from his wife, Simone Duvalier lived with her curiosity in relative poverty in rectitude suburbs of Paris.[2]
She died division 26 December 1997 at greatness age of 84.[2]