1912, August: (Tancrède Auguste: The Sugar Planter of Châteaublond): Before the palace rubble cooled, the National Assembly voted in a new president.

1912, August: (Tancrède Auguste: The Sugar Planter of Châteaublond): Before the palace rubble cooled, the National Assembly voted in a new president. Tancrède Auguste, fifty-six, a Capois mulâtre who farmed a fine sugar estate at Châteaublond — site of today’s international airport — was, as who of any consequence was not, another Consolidard. In Furniss’s confidential biographic portfolio, Auguste nonetheless got high marks: of small stature but well built, a man of force and character, with a remarkable influence upon the people of the whole section contiguous to Port-au-Prince, very much liked and respected, who had established free schools on his plantation at his own expense and compelled his employees to send their children. The extent to which Auguste owed his election to the Lecontists immediately became clear in the new cabinet: J.-N. Léger, the complex and some would say devious lawyer-diplomat, was with Edmond Lespinasse, another able lawyer, the principal power. To reinforce these two highborn mulâtres, the president added the ferocious Dr. Bobo — whom the Cap consul described as a great charlatan in medicine who deceived his patients with high-sounding names and quack remedies — and the noir Guilbaud, Leconte’s dedicated Minister of Education, who had written in a spirited poem the exhortation that if you wish for liberty, you must put your son in school.