Maximilien Quenum-Possy-Berry, Légion d'honneur (December 5, 1911, in Cotonou, Dahomey, now Benin – October 21, 1988, in Paris) was a politician who served[1] as a senator of the Fourth Republic, representing Dahomey in the French Senate from 1955 to 1958.
[2] He was married to Marie-Antoinette Aubert ( Montélimar ) and had five children with her.
His book Légendes africaines: Côte d'Ivoire, Soudan, Dahomey (1946) was a collection of historical legends he recalled being told in his childhood by the elders of his village.
[3] The book, aimed at children, won an award from the Académie française.
[4] Most of his other books were academic ethnological studies;[3] of particular note is his Au Pays du Fons: Us et Coutumes de Dahomey (1938), which was also lauded by the Académie.