tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post5740935817255983093..comments2024-03-16T01:00:19.876-05:00Comments on The Mad Monarchist: Consort Profile: Empress Marie-Claire of HaitiMadMonarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08083008336883267870noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-64645869780659517322012-07-20T18:28:18.817-05:002012-07-20T18:28:18.817-05:00It is a little known fact that initially the Haiti...It is a little known fact that initially the Haitian "revolutionaries" sided with the Spanish against the French revolutionary government. Many believed they were championing the cause of the King against the revolutionaries (who the slaves correctly identified as having more in common with the planters). Some of the first leaders of the rebellion, such as Georges Biassou, remained in the service of Charles IV, and relocated to Florida, which was then still under Spanish control. Biassou was placed in command of the colored militia in St. Augustine, where he lived out the rest of his life. Many historians have been eager to paint the slave rebels as somehow being motivated by Enlightenment notions and French revolutionary principles, but men like Biassou and even Louverture were the product of traditional hierarchical and patriarchal societies, and this is reflected quite clearly in the governments they favored and created. Louverture, who is held up as a revolutionary freedom fighter by some historians, was an absolutist who reinstated forced labor.suleymanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10902073486054174225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-85277655835950698022012-07-20T18:19:42.148-05:002012-07-20T18:19:42.148-05:00Does anyone know if there are any living pretender...Does anyone know if there are any living pretenders to any of Haiti's three royal houses? Not surprisingly, for a country that has had so much revolution, turmoil, and general instability over the past two centuries, there really doesn't seem to have been any genealogical histories kept. <br /><br />Henri's son and heir was killed 10 days after him, and one of Jacques' grandsons served as president in the early 20th century, but I've never seen any other information on their descendants or possible lines of succession.Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08368547834849724343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-43775426839466667672012-07-20T16:57:25.385-05:002012-07-20T16:57:25.385-05:00Oooh, the Haitian monarchy! Awesome post!Oooh, the Haitian monarchy! Awesome post!TranquilityAzurehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16832547858455710868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-28071889357955554852012-07-20T16:06:43.734-05:002012-07-20T16:06:43.734-05:00Would you please post something on Prince Henry-Si...Would you please post something on Prince Henry-Sixtus and the Bourbon=Busset family?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09874742677364413572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-57486181508866951212012-07-20T02:59:23.727-05:002012-07-20T02:59:23.727-05:00I was never before aware that Haiti was ever a Mon...I was never before aware that Haiti was ever a Monarchy. I'm going to have to research that. Yet another thing to love about this site.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com