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Li fèt 5 jiyè 1905 nan Port-au-Prince, li se pitit Eugénie Mallebranche ak Georges Sylvain, yon powèt epi diplomat.[1] Li te yon etidyan briyan, ki edike an n Ayiti, Pòtoriko ak Etazini, li diplome nan fakilte dwa nan Inivèsite Ayiti an 1933, li etidye edikasyon ak sosyoloji nan Inivèsite Puerto-Rico (1936–38) ak nan kolèj Bryn Mawr , Pennsylvania , kote li te resevwa yon doktora nan sosyoloji nan 1941.
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Born on 5 July 1905 in Port-au-Prince, she was the daughter of the poet and diplomat Georges Sylvain and his wife Eugénie Mallebranche.[4] A brilliant student, she was educated in Haiti, Puerto Rico and the United States, graduating in law at the University of Haiti in 1933, studying education and sociology at the University of Puerto-Rico (1936–38) and at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, where she earned a doctorate in sociology in 1941.