Aimé Césaire (1913 – 2008)

Promotion 1935 - Lettres

A renowned poet during his lifetime and a French politician, deputy of the Martinique and mayor of Fort-de-France for several decades, Aimé Césaire was a fervent humanist. He coined, with Léopold Sedar Sanghor in particular, the concept of “negritude” and helped the Martinique colony to become a French département.