Soulouque and His Empire

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Excerpt from Soulouque and His Empire: From the French of Gustave D'alaux Soulouque and His Empire was published at Paris, in 1856. At that time, Soulouque was firmly seated 011 his throne - his name a terror to his own wretched people, and a by-word of ridicule to all the world besides. He spent nearly ten years - decorating himself - creating a black aristocracy with the most preposterous titles - ruthlessly slaying all, his suspicions, hatred, or caprice singled out- and, in making a ludicrous war on the Dominicans. The social condition of Hayti was constantly retrograding, the material interest of the country neglected, commerce driven away by ruinous exactions, and all sinking, rapidly, to a lower level of civilization. Certainly then ten years of this tragic buffoonery was sufficient, the gew-gaw concern was falling to pieces of itself, a breath of opposition was only necessary to complete the work, and Geffrard gave it. With a few resolute followers, on the 25th day of December, 1858, he made a descent upon Port-au-Prince, in a roiv-boat, and the Empire of Faus-tin 1st became a matter of history. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.