1898-00-00: (Le Nouvelliste Newspaper Established, Haiti’s Most Enduring Daily Newspaper, a Publication That Would Survive Occupations, Dictatorships, and Ea…

1898-00-00: (Le Nouvelliste Newspaper Established, Haiti’s Most Enduring Daily Newspaper, a Publication That Would Survive Occupations, Dictatorships, and Earthquakes to Remain in Continuous Print for Over a Century): In 1898, Le Nouvelliste was established, becoming the most enduring daily newspaper in Haitian history. The paper would survive the U.S. occupation, the Duvalier dictatorship, the post-Duvalier turmoil, and the 2010 earthquake, maintaining continuous publication through every political upheaval the nation endured. In the same year, Maison Henri Deschamps was established as a publishing house, the institution that would later publish the remaining unpublished volumes of Thomas Madiou’s eight-volume history of Haiti during the twentieth century. Together, Le Nouvelliste and Deschamps represented the infrastructure of Haitian intellectual life: a newspaper to record the present and a publishing house to preserve the past, institutions that every nation requires and that Haiti maintained despite conditions that would have destroyed them anywhere else.