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1878-10-12

Adélina Lévêque, the last empress Haiti has had, dies

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Adélina Lévêque died on 12 October 1878. Born Elisabeth Anne Justine Lévêque on 26 July 1820, she was empress of Haiti from 1849 to 1859 as the wife of Faustin Soulouque. She was the second of Haiti’s two empresses: Marie-Claire Heureuse Félicité Bonheur had been empress from 1804 to 1806 as the wife of Jean-Jacques Dessalines. The empire ended with Soulouque’s overthrow in 1859.

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