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Jean used to exhibit paintings at museums in Chicago and in New York. He studied Jewelry-Making in Mexico, met Winifred Mason a famous American coppersmith that he married later on in Haiti. They moved to New York and settled there for a while. They returned to Haiti and lived in Mariani, a southern locality of Port-au- Prince. They opened a jewelry shop and a factory for creating their custom-jewelry that they supplied to Haitian stores, such as La Belle Creole . They also supplied different stores in the US, including Bloomingdales in NY. Read more...
1963. Another traumatizing year for the Haitian people. Acts of political repression, arson and murder instigated by President Duvalier's merciless Tonton Macoutes, increased exponentially to the extent that theUnited States naval force stood at alert in international waters off Haiti, ready to evacuate the American living there when the situation deteriorated further. During the early hours of one April morning, Jean was summoned by a group of the Duvalier henchmen to step out of his house and told his wife Winifred to stay put inside. Jean went out and, according to one of versions, was immediately executed by a shot in the head. An ambulance came right after and picked up his body, which was never recovered, nor given back to his grieving family. Jean's widow Winifred Mason escaped to the US embassy in Haiti and returned back to New York. She continued to create and sell their Chenet D' Haiti jewelry.
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Jean Chenet.
(1919- April 1963)
Jean Chenet, a well-known jeweler, was the Haitian Art Centre's director in the fifties. The objective of the Centre was to promote artistic endeavors in Haitian, to subsidize the artists who needed assistance, and to encourage them to paint, sculpt, or engage in other art forms. |
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To
memorialize... |
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 Fort-Dimanche,
Fort-La-Mort
(Nouvelle édition revue
et augmentée)
With the same commitment
to memorialize the thousands of forgotten victims
of the Duvaliers'
regime, Fordi9
is pleased to announce the release of the fourth French edition
of Patrick
Lemoine's book, revised and updated, Fort-Dimanche,
Fort-La-Mort. |
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| Le Nouvelliste du 17 Juin 2011- Fort-Dimanche |
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| Le
Nouvelliste du 8 février 2007 - Fort-Dimanche,
Fort-La-Mort dénonce la vie vécue en
prison |
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Le
Nouvelliste du 8 février 2007 - Fort-Dimanche,
Fort-La-Mort dénonce la vie vécue en
prison |
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