French speaking poet, he published :
Chants d'Ombre (1945) (Songs of
Darkness)
Hosties Noires (1948) ( Black Hosts
)
Anthologie de la nouvelle poésie
nègre et malgache (1948) (An
anthology of the new Black and Madagascan
poetry )
Langage et poésie négro-africaine
(1954) (Language and Black African poetry
)
Ethiopiques (1956)
Nocturnes(1961)
Elégies majeures (1979)