Thursday evening, the Ministry of Culture paid tribute to the historian Georges Corvington, died April 3 at the age of 86 years, welcoming in the gardens of the Ministry, parents, friends, students, historians and admirers of Georges Corvington, who has spent the bulk of his work to the city of Port-au-Prince. Testimonies, each moving more than the other have expressed the dimension of this loss.

Josette Darguste, the Minister of Culture, bowed with great reverence to the remains of this great lover of the City of Port-au-Prince. She stated that she apprehended this tribute to the historian, as a duty, which falls within the mission of the Ministry of Culture to "value the cultural heritage multidimensional of Haiti".

"The Government to which I belong, can not leave in silence the departure of this National Treasury. So we thought to ributes worthy of the person. Eminent historian of Port-au-Prince, endowed with this incomparable art of telling the Haitian capital since its first stone, in its architectural contours, its social and political upheavals, its glory, its decadence, its rebirth and hope.

I have known, the joy of rub Georges Corvington at the Ministry of Tourism. Our ties have strengthened within the Commission of Commemoration of the Bicentenary of the death of Toussaint Louverture, particularly during the pilgrimage to the Fort de Joux. Generous soul, Patriot with an exemplary citizenship and the spirit of service, Georges does not bargained his assistance." After having evoked these moments of collaboration with the historian, the Minister appealed the artisans, artists and writers to capture the man and his work by their production.

"The departure of Georges Corvington is a horrible loss for historians," declared the historian Georges Michel, who presented the deceased as a model of man open, caring and always willing to share his knowledge.

Stéphanie Balmir Vildrouin, the Minister of Tourism, sees in Georges Corvington a "Guardian of the collective memory." Recalling that Mr. Corvington spent 12 years of his life at the service of the ministry she runs, she praised the modesty shown by the historian, for armoring against anything that might distract him from his mission.

On behalf of his entire family, a nephew of the historian thanked the Ministry of Culture for this initiative and said that if his uncle had never married, it was because he had taken the city of Port-au-Prince as his wife.

The evening was marked by other interventions, including that of Pierre Buteau, Secretary of the Society of History, Geology and Geography, and Patrick Tardieu, Curator of the Library of the Fathers of the Holy Spirit.

Georges Corvington left 8 volumes of the series "Port-au-Prince over the years" and also made ​​two outstanding works, on the National Palace and the Cathedral of Port-au-Prince.

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