Simone Duvalier According to a number of her associates, she deeply resented having to relinquish that role after Jean-Claude Duvalier married in 1980 and she was demoted to "Guardian of the Duvalierist Revolution". When her son was ousted from power in February 1986, Simone Duvalier joined him and his wife, Michèle Bennett, in exile in France. She was rarely seen in public. After her son's bitter divorce from his wife, Simone Duvalier lived with her son in relative poverty in the suburbs of Paris. She died on 26 December 1997. Simone Duvalier Simone Duvalier (; "née" Ovide; 19 March 1913 – 26
Jean-Claude Guillebaud Jean-Claude Guillebaud Jean-Claude Guillebaud (21 May 1944, Algiers) is a French writer, essayist, lecturer and journalist. A journalist at the daily "Sud Ouest", then at the newspaper "Le Monde" and the weekly "Le Nouvel Observateur", Jean-Claude Guillebaud also directed the organisation Reporters Without Borders. In 1972 he was the recipient of the Prix Albert-Londres. He is a member of the sponsorship committee of the of the culture of peace and non-violence. In 2005, Guillebaud published "". He kept a weekly column on the life of the media in the television supplement of "Le Nouvel Observateur" before replacing Jacques Julliard as