Coriolan Ardouin

Coriolan Ardouin (11 December 1812 – 12 July 1835) was a Haitian romantic poet.

Ardouin left only one work before his early death: a compilation of poems entitled Reliques d'un Poète Haïtien (Relics of a Haitian Poet), published posthumously in 1837.

As he was born, his two-year-old brother lay dying in another room.

A legend tells that a black butterfly landed on Ardouin's cradle at his birth, a bad omen signaling the miseries to come.

Coriolan Ardouin's brothers, Beaubrun and Céligny, were well known as historians and politicians.