1. Osman Duquesnay was a French politician and physician.
11 Facts About Osman Duquesnay
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Osman Duquesnay was deputy of Martinique from 1898 to 1902 and from 1906 to 1910.
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Osman Duquesnay belonged to one of the most prominent wealthy mixed race families of Le Marin in Martinique.
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Osman Duquesnay interrupted his studies to enlist as a volunteer when the Franco-Prussian war was declared in July 1870.
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Osman Duquesnay was then elected general councillor for the canton of Saint-Pierre-Mouillage.
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Osman Duquesnay's fame grew and in 1884 he became vice-president of the general council.
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Osman Duquesnay became closer to the Hurardists and the Bekes, or white Creole landowners, who gradually returned to the political arena.
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In 1898, Osman Duquesnay ran against his former party friend Ernest Deproge in the legislative elections and inflicted a crushing defeat on him.
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In 1914, during the First World War, Osman Duquesnay devotedly worked as a doctor in a hospital in Thessaloniki, Greece, and then in the Val-de-Grace hospital in Paris.
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Osman Duquesnay was undoubtedly an important political figure in Martinique at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century.
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Osman Duquesnay died in Le Marin on 8 December 1923 at the age of 77.