Birth of Hugues Montbrun

Aquin gave birth to Hugues Montbrun, whose name fills the first pages of the history of Haiti. He was born on 12 June 1756 on an habitation near Aquin. He was brought up at Bordeaux, where he had been sent at the age of 5. From captain in the regiment of the dragoons of Angoulême he became in 1792 chief of a battalion of national volunteers of the department of the Gironde, and then passed to Saint-Domingue as aide-de-camp of General Desparbès. Appointed Governor General of the West, he engaged in his command in mercantile operations that displeased the officers under his orders and that caused disturbances at Jacmel, where Beauvais was in command. Montbrun accused the latter of being the instigator and ordered him under arrest. Beauvais having disobeyed this order, the soldiers of the legion, who had declared themselves, some for Beauvais, others for Montbrun, were about to come to blows, when the officers called for the mediation of Rigaud. The latter, assisted by Pinchinat, removed the command of the West from Montbrun and entrusted it to Beauvais. Arrested afterward and sent to…

Rouzier tells this under the entry Aquin.