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He grew up in La Vallée de Jacmel (Haiti), a small town near the city of Jacmel as the oldest of nine siblings in the 1970s. Francois Nau’s parents did not have the chance to go to school. And so did many of the kids his age, who by the time they were 17, had only two destinies awaiting them: working on their respective families’ farms, or head over to the Dominican Republic to cut cane for the big sugar firms. By the early 90′s, only six people from that remote area, since 1492, have completed their secondary education and went to college. Francois Nau was one the them. Thanks to the tireless efforts of his parents, he attended college and landed in law school in Haiti. He eventually left for the United States, and along with his wife Edith, he instills the values of education in his three children Joe, Chriss, and Belle. "Chapo ba pou Marechal Mimi ak ti Jan" is the first novel published by Francois Nau in 2012. It’s his tribute to his mother, the people of his hometown, and all those who believe in education. It also has reminisences and glimpses of the Haiti of the past, when happiness was achieved out of the simplest pleasures.