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 as a senator of the Fourth Republic, representing Dahomey in the French Senate from 1955 to 1958. He was also a teacher of philosophy and a writer on ethnology.
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. The book, aimed at children, won an award from the Académie française. Most of his other books were academic ethnological studies; of particular note is his Au Pays du Fons: Us et Coutumes de Dahomey (1938), which was also lauded by the Académie.
References
- ^ "Quenum-Possy-Berry Maximilien". Sénat.
- ^ Houngnikpo, Mathurin C.; Decalo, Samuel (2013). Historical Dictionary of Benin. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 303. ISBN 978-0810871717. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
- ^ 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.
- 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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