Camille Darsières (born the May 19th 1932 with Fort-de-France, deceased the December 14th 2006) is a lawyer and politician inhabitant of Martinique, in favor of autonomy. He was appointed of Martinique of 1993 to 2002.

University formation and profession

He carried out his higher learning with the Université of Toulouse and is titular of a Doctorat in right. On its return in its native island, it is registered as lawyer with the bar of Fort-de-France. It was also old Bâtonnier about lawyers of Martinique and chairman of the board of the University hospital of Fort de France.

Political course

Camille Darsières engages in policy in 1959 and adheres to the Parti progressist inhabitant of Martinique (PPM) party founded by Aimé Césaire and becomes General secretary of 1970 to 1999 about it.

• General adviser of the 6th canton of Fort-de-France of 1961 to 1992.

• City council man Fort-de-France of 1965 to 2001 and 2nd assistant of the mayor.

• |Regional adviser of 1983 to 2004.

• First Vice-president of the District council of Martinique of 1983 to 1986.

• President of the District council of Martinique of 1986 to 1992.

• Appointed 3 {{E}} third district of Martinique of 1993 to 2002.

The existence of the nation inhabitant of Martinique according to Camille Darsières

Camille Darsières is the author of a monumental political test entitled Of the origins of the nation inhabitant of Martinique published in 1974 in which it develops a consistent sales leaflet, proving the existence of a nation inhabitant of Martinique:

" That we are inhabitant of Martinique appears obvious to us… Inhabitant of Martinique let us be we it by the geography… Inhabitant of Martinique are we it by the history… Inhabitant of Martinique let us be we it by the components of our people… Inhabitant of Martinique let us be we it because our economic interests are distinct from the economic interests of France… Inhabitant of Martinique let us be we it until in this Créole speech… And all these various factors, necessarily, forged a culture which, to be strongly influenced by the European culture, culture imposed, taught, popularized officially, is not less one original culture, which also enter of the African and Indian components… In truth which us does miss, consequently, to be the nation inhabitant of Martinique ? Nothing, absolutely nothing. If is not to cease being afraid of the mots" .

" If it is a data, with my insusceptible direction of serious discussion, it is although the people inhabitant of Martinique forms a nation … left There our chance, with us inhabitant of Martinique, it is not to be completely, neither of European culture, neither of African culture, nor of Indian culture, but of a culture which results from a mixing from several, each one, in a way deliberated or unconscious, received and digested with our manner… For all to say: we are not, or sums any more, a little this, a little that, a little this other still… We are new beings, of the inhabitant of Martinique, alive, whether the French State conceives it or not, in a multinational French unit… It is not question of asserting, by this skew the independence of our country which would deliver our people, naked, clean slate of very acquired, without least protection nor the least asset, with a all the more tough neocolonialism as we would have it, objectively, set up, without possibility of a flashback. It is of an autonomous Martinique area, in decentralized France which it is question, of a nation inhabitant of Martinique freely developing in multinational federate France ".

Its works

This large scholar inhabitant of Martinique and impassioned by the history of his country is the author of:

• Of the origins of the nation inhabitant of Martinique , Désormeaux editions, 1974.
• Joseph Lagrosillière, colonial Socialist , biography in 2 volumes, Political editions Désormeaux, 1999
• Written .

He also wrote to many articles in the Progressist of which he was editor association.

Sources and references

• Joseph Lagrosillière, colonial Socialist - volume 2 - postface
• Of the origins of the nation inhabitant of Martinique published in 1974 by Camille Darsières Editions Désormeaux
• Official site of the National Assembly

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