At 95 years old, Adeline Magloire Chancy has lost none of her desire to speak. Her Journal, presented last Saturday at the Complexe Promenade, is one of those books that do not just recount a life, but grab a country by the sleeve to remind it where it comes from. Dictatorship of the Duvaliers, exile, commitments: three words that the author has chosen to put to paper.

Writing to break the imposed silence