This ruler instituted a namesake legal code which obliged all adult males and females to work, and he created the hilarious royal title Count of Marmalade.
This ruler instituted a namesake legal code which obliged all adult males and females to work, and he created the hilarious royal title Count of Marmalade. He constructed a building often known as the "Blacksmith's Pouch" along with the residential palace Sans Souci. He headed a kingdom in the Northern Province during a partition of his country where he built a citadel overlooking the harbor named La Ferriere, while the southern part of the country was ruled by his rival Alexandre Petion. He shot himself in the heart with a silver bullet in 1820, nine years after he came to power following the overthrow of Jean-Jacques Dessalines, and before that he'd been an aide to Toussaint L'Ouverture. FTP, name this ruler of Haiti who proclaimed himself King Henri I.
This ruler instituted a namesake legal code which obliged all adult males and females to work, and he created the hilarious royal title Count of Marmalade.
Henri Christophe