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You are here: Home / Democracy Culture / Macron Honors Haitian Revolutionary, But Leaves Much Unsaid

Macron Honors Haitian Revolutionary, But Leaves Much Unsaid

May 2, 2023 by DC Editors 1 Comment

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Macron Honors Haitian Revolutionary, But Leaves Much Unsaid
Bronze bust of Toussaint Louverture

By Constant Méheut and Catherine Porter in The New York Times. Here is an extract:

The president of France on Thursday stepped into the cold mountain prison where Toussaint Louverture, a famed leader of the Haitian Revolution, died 220 years ago after being tricked, kidnapped and secreted across an ocean and into the French hinterland.

Standing in the armory, not far from the cell where Louverture spent his last days, President Emmanuel Macron called the man who took on France after being freed from slavery a hero who embodied the true values of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution.

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Filed Under: Democracy Culture Tagged With: Caribbean, Colonialism, Election History, France, Haiti

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