Maximilien Quenum-Possy-Berry

Maximilien Quenum-Possy-Berry, Légion d'honneur (5 December 1911 in Cotonou, Dahomey, now Benin – 21 October 1988 in Paris) was a politician who served[1] as a senator of the Fourth Republic, representing Dahomey in the French Senate from 1955 to 1958.[1] He was also a teacher of philosophy and a writer on ethnology.[2]

Personal life

He was married to Marie-Antoinette Aubert ( Montélimar ) and had five children with her.

Writings

His book Légendes africaines: Côte d'Ivoire, Soudan, Dahomey (1946) was a collection of historical legends he recalled being told in his childhood by the elders of his village.[3] The book, aimed at children, won an award from the Académie française.[4] Most of his other books were academic ethnological studies;[3] of particular note is his Au Pays du Fons: Us et Coutumes de Dahomey (1938), which was also lauded by the Académie.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b "Quenum-Possy-Berry Maximilien". Sénat.
  2. ^ a b Houngnikpo, Mathurin C.; Decalo, Samuel (2013). Historical Dictionary of Benin. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 303. ISBN 978-0810871717. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
  3. ^ a b Blair, Dorothy S. (1976). African Literature in French: a history of creative writing in French from west and equatorial Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 34. ISBN 978-0-521-21195-6.
  4. ^ Jansen, Jan; Maier, Hendrik M. J. (2004). Epic Adventures: heroic narrative in the oral performance traditions of four continents. LIT Verlag Münster. p. 41. ISBN 978-3-8258-6758-4.


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