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(HAITI.) D'Alaux, Gustave. L'Empereur Soulouque et son Empire. Small 8vo, contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, edges rubbed with a couple of
(HAITI.) D'Alaux, Gustave. L'Empereur Soulouque et son Empire. Small 8vo, contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, edges rubbed with a couple of nicks; some foxing. Paris: Michel Levy, 1856
- Notes: first edition. "The most amazing contemporary description of of the period of Soulouque's regime in Haiti. During this period the general became Emperor Faustin I, and D'Alaux's story must forever remain the important contemporary source. The ten years of tragic buffoonery in which was created a black aristocracy with the most preposterous titles; ten years of massacres and ruthless persecutions of mulattoes, a ludicrous war on the Dominicans; resulted in making his name a terror everywhere in Haiti, it is a remarkable book"--Charles Heartman, noted Americana dealer, in a 1947 catalogue.
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