Jérémie
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The City of Poets{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X0YJAQAAMAAJ&q=The+City+of+Poets+jeremie |title=Haiti |editor=Press |page=1930 |year=1963 |publisher=Pan American Union. Dept. of Information and Public Affairs |access-date=11 November 2015}}
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File:Cathédrale Jérémie Haïti.JPG (2006)]]
File:Aperçu centre Jérémie Haïti.JPG
Jérémie ({{IPA|fr|ʒeʁemi|-|LL-Q150 (fra)-Arthur Crbz-Jérémie.wav}}; {{langx|ht|Jeremi}}) is a commune and capital city of the Grand'Anse department in Haiti. It had a population of about 134,317 at the 2015 census. It is relatively isolated from the rest of the country. The Grande-Anse River flows near the city.
Jérémie is called the city of the poets because of the numerous writers, poets, and historians born there.{{cite web |url=http://www.bradtguides.com/destinations/north-america-caribbean/haiti/jeremie.html |title=Jérémie – A view from our author |access-date=26 January 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150201190937/http://www.bradtguides.com/destinations/north-america-caribbean/haiti/jeremie.html |archive-date=1 February 2015 }}
History
During 1762, Creole General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas was born here. He is mostly known for fighting under Napoleon in Italy and Egypt and for being the father of writer Alexandre Dumas.
In 1964, during the Jérémie Vespers, the Haitian army and the Tonton Macoutes massacred 27 people in Jérémie.Bain de Sang, by 'Albert D. Chasagne
In the early 2000s, archaeologists uncovered an ancient synagogue of Crypto-Jews in the city, the only one found on the island. Jérémie has historically been inhabited by many mixed-race families of Jewish descent.{{cite web|url=http://www.jta.org/2004/02/13/archive/around-the-jewish-world-as-haiti-burns-its-few-jews-choose-business-over-politics |title=Around the Jewish World As Haiti Burns, Its Few Jews Choose Business over Politics |editor=Press |date=13 February 2004 |publisher=JTA (Jewish Telegraphic Agency) |access-date=29 April 2019}}
In the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, a food aid convoy transporting aid delivered to Jérémie Airport through Jérémie encountered a hijacking attempt by 20 men, on 30 January 2010.Newser, [http://www.newser.com/article/d9dk9mb81/food-convoy-attacked-by-armed-group-in-haiti-un-warns-of-volatile-security-situation.html "Food convoy attacked by armed group in Haiti; UN warns of volatile security situation"]{{dead link|date=July 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, Paisley Doods, 2 February 2010 (accessed 3 February 2010) Medical supplies have also been airlifted through the airport, due to the increase in medical needs from injured refugees arriving in the wake of the quake.New York Times, [https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/05/world/americas/05planes.html "Volunteers Fly Supplies Into Hard-to-Reach Areas"], Shaila Dewan, 4 February 2010 (accessed 4 February 2010)
In October 2016, Jérémie was almost completely destroyed by Hurricane Matthew as it went past Haiti.{{cite news |publisher=BBC |date=6 October 2016 |access-date=6 October 2016 |title=Hurricane Matthew: New images show scale of Haiti destruction |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-37570409}}
Roughly {{convert|40|nmi|mi km}} west of the city lies Navassa Island, which is claimed by Haiti and the United States.{{cite web |url=http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/haiti/rock.htm |title=Whose Rock Is It? Yes, the Haitians Care |first=Larry |last=Rohter |date=19 October 1998 |work=Port-au-Prince Journal |publisher=New York Times |access-date=28 January 2012 }}
Facilities
The city has an airport, Jérémie Airport.
The area of the airport of Jérémie is known as "Numero Deux". Mission Aviation Fellowship conducts charter flights into the airport. [https://AgapeFlights.com Agape Flights], based in Venice, Florida, provides weekly mail and cargo service for several missionaries in the area.
Locations in Jérémie
Notable natives and residents
- Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, a general of the French Revolutionary Wars, was born in Jérémie as the son of a French nobleman and his African slave, before independence. Dumas lived most of his life in France, where his father took him at age 18. He married and was the father of Alexandre Dumas, who became a noted and prolific author in the nineteenth century.
- Joseph Serge Miot, was born there. He was the Archbishop of Port-au-Prince, and was killed in the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
- Emile Roumer (1903–1988), a poet.
- Modeste Testas (1765–1870), formerly enslaved Ethiopian woman, whose statues stands in Bordeaux commemorating the transatlantic slave trade.{{Cite web|title=Haiti - Memory : Bordeaux inaugurates the statue of a slave of the Haitian sculptor, C. Woodly - HaitiLibre.com : Haiti news 7/7|url=https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-27707-haiti-memory-bordeaux-inaugurates-the-statue-of-a-slave-of-the-haitian-sculptor-c-woodly.html|access-date=2021-03-30|website=www.haitilibre.com}}
- Etzer Vilaire (1872–1951), a poet
- Elisabeth Dieudonné Vincent (1798–1883) free colored businesswoman{{cite book |last1=Scott |first1=Rebecca J. |last2=Hébrard |first2=Jean M. |title=Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LDUiYEKg5FkC&pg=PA75 |date=2012 |publisher=Harvard University Press |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |isbn=978-0-674-06516-1 |pages=20, 77, 90}}
- Joseph Raoul Cédras (1949) former Haitian military officer.
References
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Category:Historic Jewish communities in North America
Category:Jews and Judaism in Haiti
Category:Populated places in Grand'Anse (department)