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“Every sufficiently educated Haitian believes, indeed, that he is destined to hold the highest office of his country.”

“Every sufficiently educated Haitian indeed believes themselves destined to hold the highest office of their country.”

Report of the French Legation in Haiti to the Quai d’Orsay, January 12, 1896, cited in Leslie F. Manigat, La crise haïtienne contemporaine, CHUDAC, 2009 [1995], pp. 36-37

On January 12, 1896, the French Legation in Haiti sent a political report to the Quai d’Orsay.

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