ABSTRACT
Jean-Claude Duvalier (b. 1951), President of Haiti in 1971-86, known as ‘Bébé Doc’, succeeded his father, on his death, at the age of only 19. A weak ruler, dominated first by his mother and later by his wife, his regime was less tyrannical than that of his father, but gathering unrest forced him to flee into exile in France in 1986. In 2004 he was living in poverty in Paris, having spent all of the immense fortune he had expatriated.
