Simone Ovide Duvalier
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Better know knows in Haiti as "Manmam Simone", Simone Ovide Duvalier was the Wife of Haitian President Francois Duvalier. Simone Ovide Duvalier was the mother of Haitian President Jean Claude Duvalier. The Haiti Slums currently known as Cite Soleil was once named Cite Simone, after Simone Ovide Duvalier.
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Born Simone Ovide (around 1913) near the town of leogane, she was the illegitimate daughter of a well-known mulatto merchant and scholar, Jules Faine, and one of the maids in his household. (latinamericanstudies.org)
Died: December 26 1997 of undisclosed causes in a clinic outside Paris on Friday For more Famous Haitians click on a letter
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