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HAITI
1804 is the year of Independence in Haiti.
We are the first Black Independent Republic.
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L'Autel de La Patrie |
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Description
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[English] [French] |
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REF. #: |
PA1095 |
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measurements: |
30" x 40" |
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media/support: |
Oil on canvas |
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year:
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2003 |
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price: |
$2,500.00 |
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1804 is the year of Independence in Haiti.
We are the first Black Independent Republic.
Hero
represented in this painting:
JANUARY 1st, 1804
[click here
for French Version]
Early
in the morning, bugles and drums resounded everywhere in Gonaives.
Soldiers and civilians, enthusiast and loud, rapidly filled the streets.
People came from the mountains. An immense crowd of women and girls
beautifully dressed hurried alongside the soldiers, on the parade ground,
all around the town hall dominated by the proud silhouette of the Liberty
tree.
At seven o'clock, a radiant sun illuminated the city. Dessalines, surrounded by a cortege of officers, walked through the crowd, climbed the steps of the "Autel de la Patrie" and reminded the people of all the tortures the natives had endured under the French domination. To conclude, he said, his arms extended: “Let us promise to fight until our last breath for the independence of our nation. “ From the crowd came one great cry supported by the raging sound of the canons, the cry of: “death or freedom “
When the noise subsided, Boirond Tonerre, standing beside Dessalines, read: 1) the proclamation of the General of the Army; 2) the Independence Act signed by Dessalines and the principal officers of the army. Then, as the crowd scattered throughout the streets of the city, the official cortege went to the palace. There, of their own will, the officers proclaimed Dessalines general governor of the island and swore to obey blindly to his rules and gave him the right to make war or maintain peace and the authority to name his successor.
A few days later, these official acts were published all over the city and villages of Haiti and this was cause for new celebrations.
A new nation was born. They had to defend it; they had to organize it.
(History of Haiti by J-C Dorsainville page 138, Henri Deschamps Publishing House)
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1804 is the year of Independence in Haiti.
We are the first Black Independent Republic.
Hero
represented in this painting:
LE 1er JANVIER 1804
[click
here for English Version]
De grand matin, clairons et tambours resonnerent de tous cotes aux Gonaives. Soldats et civils, enthousiastes, bruyants, remplirent les rues en un clin d'oeil. Le peuple afflua des campagnes, et une foule immense ou femmes et jeunes filles richement parees coudoyaient les soldats, se pressa sur la place d'armes autour d'un hotel de la patrie que dominait seule, la fine et altiere silhouette du palmiste de la Liberte.
A sept heure, tandis qu'un soleil radieux illuminait la citee, Dessalines, entoure du brillant cortege des generaux, fendit la foule, gravit les marche de l' Autel de la Patrie et rappela, dan un vehement discours en creole, tous les tourments que les indigenes avaient endures sous la domination francaise. En terminant, il s'ecria, le bras tendu:
"Jurons de combattre jusqu'au dernier soupir pour l'Independence de notre Pays". De toutes les poitrines, jallit, formidable, accentue par la voix seche et rageuse des canons, le serment, mille fois repete, de vivre libre ou de mourir.
Quand le tumulte fut appaise, Boirond Tonerre, debout aupres de Dessalines , donna lecture :1erment de la proclamation du general en chef ; 2ment de l'Acte de L'Independence signe de Dessalines et des principeaux officiers de l'armee. Ensuite tandis que la foule s'ecoulait dans les rues de la ville, le cortege officiel se rendit au Palais du Gouvernement. La, par un acte libre, les lieutenants de Dessalines le proclamerent gouverneur general a vie de l'ile d'Haiti, jurerent d'obeir aveuglement aux lois emanees de son autorite et lui donnerent le droit de faire la paix et la guere, et de nommer son successeur.
Quelques jours plus tard, la publication de ces actes officiels dans toute la ville et tous les bourgs d'haiti provoqua de nouvelles rejouissance populaires.
Un nouvel etait ne; il fallait se defendre, il fallait l'organiser.
(Histoire
d'Haiti par J-C Dorsainville page 138, edition Henri Deschamps)
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