Saturday at the Haitian National Pantheon Museum (MUPANAH), President Jovenel Moïse participated in the commemoration ceremony of the 215th anniversary of the death of Toussaint Louverture, one of the founding fathers of the Motherland and precursor of our independence.

In this circumstance, the Head of State laid a wreath at the foot of the National Pantheon and signed the museum's guestbook "I collected at the foot of the Monument to Toussaint Louverture, the precursor of the National Independence. This wreath, I deposited it by bowing face the genius and vision of this great man whose action beyond our borders."

Recall that Toussaint Louverture died at Fort Joux (Doubs, Savoie France) located at the top of a rocky outcrop at 1,000 meters above sea level, where he was incarcerated on the orders of Napoleon Bonaparte, for opposing by arms, to the reestablishment of black slavery. Although the orders given by Bonaparte, specified that Toussaint Louverture "must receive a suitable treatment, that it will be sufficiently clothed and heated", the climate of the mountains remains hardly bearable for an already sick Caribbean man. Toussaint Louverture died in his cell on April 7, 1803, five months after his arrival and before the independence of Haiti.

Toussaint Louverture entered the Haitian National Pantheon on April 7, 1983, the same day the MUPANAH was inaugurated.

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https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-12415-haiti-politic-moving-tribute-of-president-martelly-to-toussaint-louverture.html

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