Quo Fuit places 4 dated presences for Aimé Césaire across 4 places, from 1913 to 1936.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Aimé Fernand David Césaire (26 June 1913 – 17 April 2008) was an Afro-Martinican French poet, author, and politician.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Aimé Césaire was documented, and when
1913year
Basse-Pointeattested“Aimé Césaire was born in Basse-Pointe, Martinique, French Caribbean, in 1913.”source: Wikipedia: Aimé Césaire
1934year
Kingdom of Yugoslaviaattested“In 1934, Césaire was invited by his friend Petar Guberina to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, where in Šibenik he started writing his poem Notebook of a Return to the Native Land – one of the first expressions of the concept of Négritude.”source: Wikipedia: Aimé Césaire
1934year
Šibenikattested“In 1934, Césaire was invited by his friend Petar Guberina to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, where in Šibenik he started writing his poem Notebook of a Return to the Native Land – one of the first expressions of the concept of Négritude.”source: Wikipedia: Aimé Césaire
1936year
Martiniqueattested“Upon returning home to Martinique in 1936, Césaire began work on his long poem Cahier d'un retour au pays natal (Notebook of a Return to the Native Land), a poetic exploration of Caribbean life and cultural complexities in the New World.”source: Wikipedia: Aimé Césaire
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Places Aimé Césaire is documented in
Basse-Pointe1 presence · 1913
Kingdom of Yugoslavia1 presence · 1934
Martinique1 presence · 1936
Šibenik1 presence · 1934
Other places tied to Aimé Césaire in the record
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1935year
Parismentioned“In Paris, he passed the entrance exam for the École Normale Supérieure in 1935 and created the literary review L'Étudiant noir (The Black Student) with Léopold Sédar Senghor and Léon Damas.”source: Wikipedia: Aimé Césaire
1939year
Martiniquementioned“Together they moved back to Martinique in 1939 with their young son.”source: Wikipedia: Aimé Césaire
1945 to 1947period
National Assembly (France)mentioned“Breton contributed a laudatory introduction to this 1947 edition, saying that the "poem is nothing less than the greatest lyrical monument of our times." When asked by René Depestre about his writing style, Césaire replied by saying that…”source: Wikipedia: Aimé Césaire
9 April 2008exact date
Fort-de-Francementioned“On 9 April 2008, Césaire had serious heart troubles and was admitted to Pierre Zobda Quitman hospital in Fort-de-France.”source: Wikipedia: Aimé Césaire
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