Raymond Chassagne

Raymond Chassagne (February 13, 1924 – May 27, 2013) was a Haitian poet and essayist.[1][2][3][4]

Early life

Chassagne was born in Jérémie, Haiti and was a former officer in the Haitian army who was exiled after a political trial and imprisonment of nine months during President François Duvalier's regime.[2]

gollark: We have exciting TV like "BBC Parliament".
gollark: Analog TV got shut down here ages ago.
gollark: So I guess if you consider license costs our terrestrial TV is *not* free and costs a bit more than Netflix and stuff. Oops.
gollark: - it funds the BBC, but you have to pay it if you watch *any* live TV, or watch BBC content online- it's per property, not per person, so if you have a license, and go somewhere without a license, and watch TV on some of your stuff, you are breaking the law (unless your thing is running entirely on battery power and not mains-connected?)- it costs about twice as much as online subscription service things- there are still black and white licenses which cost a third of the priceBut the enforcement of it is even weirder than that:- there are "TV detector vans". The BBC refuses to explain how they actually work in much detail. With modern TVs I don't think this is actually possible, and they probably can't detect iPlayer use, unless you're stupid enough to sign up with your postcode (they started requiring accounts some years ago).- enforcement is apparently done by some organization with almost no actual legal power (they can visit you and complain, but not *do* anything without a search warrant, which is hard to get)- so they make up for it by sending threatening and misleading letters to try and get people to pay money
gollark: Hold on, I wrote a summary ages ago.

References
  1. CUNY Lehman -- Raymond Chassagne
  2. Press, ed. (27 May 2013). "Haïti-Littérature : L'écrivain haïtien Raymond Chassagne est mort". Alter Presse. Retrieved 3 October 2015. (in French)
  3. "Le poète haïtien Raymond Chassagne est mort". ActuaLitté. 30 May 2013. Retrieved 3 October 2013. (in French)
  4. Herdeck, Donald E.; Lubin, Maurice Alcibiade; Laniak-Herdeck, Margaret, eds. (1979). "Caribbean writers: a bio-bibliographical-critical encyclopedia". p. 338. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
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