[2] Yvonne Hakim-Rimpel was born in 1906 in Port-au-Prince, the daughter of Marie Louise Horatia Benjamin and Eli Abdallah Hakim.
By continuing and finishing her studies on her own, Yvonne freed herself from social norms and the rules dictated by her parents, namely by attending literary salons.
[3] In 1935, a newspaper of the League appeared, La Voix des femmes, a journal of expression for women, of which Yvonne was one of the main editors.
During that time, she published in her magazine the article "A moi général, deux mots", which denounced the actions of General Antonio Kébreau, who ensured the victory of the candidate François Duvalier.
[1][4] At Christmas of that year, Yvonne criticized the already established Duvalier government in the article "Peuple à genoux, attends ta délivrance", where she protests against the arrest of Gilberte "Boubou" Vieux.
[4] The romance Femmes au temps des carnassiers from the writer Marie-Celie Agnant It was inspired by the life of Yvonne Hakim-Rimpel.