Beauvoir-Dominique's father was Max Beauvoir, a Haitian biochemist, and her mother was Elisabeth Marchand, a French national and a mambo.
[4] In 1987, Beauvoir-Dominique and her husband, architect Didier Dominique, published Savalou E, a book about Vodou but also about Haiti's peasant society.
In the 1990s she collected oral histories in communities near Bois Caïman, the site of the 1791 meeting and Vodou ceremony where the first major slave insurrection of the Haitian Revolution is believed to have been planned.
[9] In 2012 she was part of a group that successfully petitioned the Library of Congress to replace the outdated "Voodoo" with their preferred term, "Vodou", explaining that the former reflects a history of racism and is pejorative.
[7] Her funeral in Mariani was attended by members of the government, Haitian Vodou officials, members of the Akademi Kreyòl Ayisyen, representative of Religions for Peace, journalist Liliane Pierre-Paul, former cabinet minister Marie Michèle Rey, former prime minister Michèle Pierre-Louis, and other Haitian and international luminaries.