Contre Vincent
- The author contests the handwriting expertise by Osborn and Fontaine on the signature of a commercial note dated May 15, which appeared in Haïti-Journal in December 1945.
- He argues that the experts relied on handwriting alone and ignored the face, the hand and the political record of the person examined.
- He lists 18 numbered points on which he says the expert opinion contradicts itself.
- The cover presents the Vincent government, established in 1934 according to its quotation, as a fascist system that suppressed public freedoms.
- The booklet is dedicated to Judge Edouard Bordes, who convicted the author.
The cover opens with quotations from Le Nouvelliste of October 29, 1946 and from Dr. Rodolphe Charmant that describe the Vincent presidency as a fascist system that suppressed public freedoms, and the booklet is dedicated to Judge Edouard Bordes, who convicted the author. Most of the surviving text is a critique, titled Exégèse de l'expertise, of the opinion by the experts Osborn and Fontaine published in Haïti-Journal in December 1945 on the signature on a commercial note dated May 15.
The author lists 18 numbered points on which he says the experts contradict themselves, using signatures supplied by Vincent himself, and he cites Louis Gastin's Éléments de psycho-diagnostic on the limits of graphology. The argument is polemical and partisan, and it records the author's account of a trial and of his imprisonment. The booklet is a source for the political conflict around the Vincent government and its aftermath and does not give a neutral account.
How to cite
Milo Rigaud, 1946, Contre Vincent, https://www.dloc.com/UF00094309/00001
- Rights holder
- Milo Rigaud