a394: RE: "Le Negre Marron" (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From:	Jerome Handler <jh3v@virginia.edu <mailto:jh3v@virginia.edu> >

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Can someone please help me with  information concerning the statue, "Le
Negre Marron" located across from  the presidential palace in
Port-au-Prince; specifically, a) who was the sculptor; b) who commissioned
the piece and why c) when was it sculpted/erected?

Jerome S. Handler
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
145 Ednam Drive
Charlottesville, VA 22903-4629
	phone: 434/923-8938
	fax: 434/923-8463