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Mainville-Joseph Soulouque is the son of Prince Jean-Joseph, Duke of Port-de-Paix, and the eldest child of his father's second marriage to Princess Célestine Dessalines, daughter of Emperor Jacques I. His father was the brother of Emperor Faustin I.
On 2 April 1800, she married Jean-Jacques Dessalines, with whom she had a long-time relationship. They had seven children: [citation needed] Princess Marie Françoise Célimène Dessalines (Saint-Marc, 2 October 1789 – 1859). Legitimated by the subsequent marriage of her parents. She never married, but had a daughter with Captain Bernard Chancy.
Jean-Jacques Dessalines (Haitian Creole: Jan-Jak Desalin; French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ ʒak dɛsalin]; 20 September 1758 – 17 October 1806) was the first Haitian Emperor, leader of the Haitian Revolution, and the first ruler of an independent Haiti under the 1805 constitution.
Jean-Jacques Dessalines; L. Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche; Cincinnatus Leconte; Yolette Leconte This page was last edited on 6 March 2018, at 06:26 (UTC). ...
The 1804 Haiti massacre, also referred to as the Haitian genocide, [1] [2] [3] was carried out by Afro-Haitian soldiers, mostly former slaves, under orders from Jean-Jacques Dessalines against much of the remaining European population in Haiti, which mainly included French people.
Yolette was the daughter of the deputy Pierre Paul francois Narces Leconte and his cousin Gabrielle Leconte, a niece of President Cincinnatus Leconte, and a descendant of Jean-Jacques Dessalines. Yolette was born and raised in La Fossette, Cap-Haitien.
She gathered the remains of Emperor Jean-Jacques Dessalines for burial. Bazile was born near Cap-Francais. She had six children as a result of rape by her enslaver. In 1796, during the Haitian Revolution, Bazile joined the Indigenous Army as a vivandière. She marched with the soldiers, sold provisions to them, and was nicknamed Défilée.
Jean-Jacques Dessalines, the first ruler of independent Haiti and a leader of the Revolution, talked about people whom he called "Rouges" (reds), or sometimes "Incas" in his letters. When they were spoken about in context of the war, he makes mention of cooperation between Africans and Natives in maroon communities that plotted against ...