6 minutes read | originally published on November 21, 2024 at 1:36 p.m., modified on March 22, 2025 at 9:10 a.m.
On Friday, May 11, 1928, Frank Jean-Louis, Papa, was born. He was the father of Pierre-Marie Jean-Louis, Ampassan born in Petit-Trou-de-Nippes. This is an excerpt of genealogical points marked by the changes and the family of Grand-Anse and Nippes reign of Jean-Louis and Supré introduced later in this edition, as well as part of Elza Leriche Jean-Louis, Loulouz, keeping record of the family’s diary, told through her two adult daughters, Moïse-Léna Jean-Louis, Tinana and Pierrelza Jean-Louis, Tata. Above all, it deals with Frank’s love life which over the years has involved transcribing effervescent conversations at family dinners and tête-à-tête with more distant family members.
Jean-Louis and Supré’s family history begins during Papa’s travel from Jérémie in 1958 to Anse-à-Veau in the commune of Petit-Trou-de-Nippes. According to the August 2003 census, Jérémie is populated by nearly 31,000 inhabitants and is located in the department of Grand-Anse, which was founded in 1756, known as the birthplace of Haiti’s poets, earning it the nickname “City of Poets”. While 36,143 inhabitants live in Petit-Trou-de-Nippes, known for its clear blue waters, rocky coastal beaches and fishing.
From Jérémie, Papa, who was a sergeant at the Parquet de Jérémie, was called to Anse-à-Veau, to join the staff of the newly assigned ranks of the Commissariat de Anse-à-Veau in 1958. In a general interest, it sought to promote law and order among the communes and departments, which was still one of the Jérémie’s municipal departments of Grand-Anse at the time. Haiti was in the same phase despite having the ninth department, which underwent a merger of departments that occurred after a law creating a tenth department, approved by the Haitian Parliament and signed by former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, in the hiver of 2003, based on the archive content from U.S. State Ministry’s government’s website.
During Papa’s tenure and his acclimatization to the Grand-Anse department, it was shortly after, in 1959, that the fateful meeting between Marie-Térèse Supré, Chouchoute, and Frank Jean-Louis, Papa, took place. The couple welcomed an illegitimate son, at dawn on Monday, November 21 (happy birthday Ampassan), and they decided to name him Pierre-Marie Jean-Louis and call him by their agreed-upon nickname “Ampassan” which comes from Marie-Térèse.
Ampassan later married Elza Leriche Jean-Louis, Lolouz at the Sacré-Cœur L’église Catholique de Port-au-Prince on Saturday, June 8, 1996. As part of the known, Marie-Térèse describes Papa as “charming and respectable”. The couple’s affection was anointed by the gods of amorous love. Their love story has lived on and was renewed over their years. For those who witnessed their affection, they often hear Papa call Marie-Térèse his “Chouchoute”, and they were often seen at community gatherings in Petit-Trou-de-Nippes, or by the Batado River in Carrefour Cadet, and at the couple’s family home in Jubilee de Côte Ferre. Papa, who in his last words about Marie-Térèse called her the lady he found in this life and the lady he will find in the infinite life to come.
Papa, who was not always part of the Nippes community, reported that he had happily made comfortable acquaintances with his Trounippois colleague at the Petit-Trou-de-Nippes Commissariat Station, located next to the Église Nativité de la Vierge Marie, and the Centre de santé de Petit–Trou-de Nippes, where both were well embraced by the commune of Nippes. Marie-Térèse, survived by Papa thirteen years earlier in Brooklyn, New York, during a 2004 doctor’s visit in the United States at Kings County Hospital on Clarkson Avenue. Papa was known to be a remarkable, “charming” and “respected” personage among what was described as “his new numbers of family” on the south coast of Haiti, at the Cité Lumière in Jacmel. He was truly loved by the community he had in Jérémie, Petit-Trou-de-Nippes and subsequently at Cité Lumière after he retired from his as a sergeant in Petit-Trou-de-Nippes.
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