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French-born became a Haitian citizen following her marriage to Milo Rigaud. Odette Mennesson-Rigaud lived in Petion Ville and became a great connoisseur of Vodou. Alfred Métraux who dedicated to her his book, Le Vaudou Haitien, Paris, Gallimard,1958 described her as a tall rich looking woman, with an inspired, authoritative air of a Popess. Ethnomusicologist Harold Courlander who studied in Haiti during the 1930's through the 1950's described her as being the ultimate insider. She knew everybody, and was the best informed of all the researchers and scholars.