Simone Ovide Faine married François Duvalier on December 24, 1939.
abbott-haiti-duvaliers-ch-notes records that the marriage was an ideological as well as domestic partnership: "What he analyzed, Simone believed. What he studied, she practiced. " Simone's mother was described by contemporaries as a "fanatic believer" in Vodou, and Simone herself was a devoted Vodouisant. This made the household's relationship to vodou-as-politics something more than performative — Simone inhabited the vodou co...