Assembly decrees the fundamental bases of the Constitution of Saint Domingue

History. Saint Marc saw gathered within its walls on 25 March 1790 the 212 members of the Colonial Assembly, under the presidency of the colonist Bacon de la Chevalerie. This sort of Convention, to which the provincial assemblies had delegated the direction of the internal affairs of the colony, dominated by the influence of the enslavers, declared that it sat by virtue of the power of its constituents, against the opinion of the minority, which proposed to say: by virtue of the decrees of the mother country. On the following 15 April it took the name of General Assembly of the French part of Saint Domingue, and had written on the curtain of its meeting hall: St.Domingue, the law and the king. On 28 May it decreed the fundamental bases of the Constitution of Saint Domingue. Governor de Peinier, supported by the sound part of the colonial third estate, dispersed this insurrectionary conventicle. The building that served this assembly still exists. It is the same one where General Aimé Legros heard his sentence of condemnation, and where the 28 men shot in 1882 listened to their…

Rouzier tells this under the entry ST.-MARC.