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1804-05-18

Bonaparte was proclaimed emperor of the French, and Saint-Rémy says the news, learned in Haiti in August, led the entourage of Dessalines to confer the same title on him.

Haitian

But when it was learned, in the month of August, that the first consul had been proclaimed Emperor on 28 floréal (18 May), men thought themselves authorized to confer the same title on Dessalines, a title which in ancient Rome was bestowed only as an honorific reward on triumphant generals, and of which Augustus, the first, made the expression of sovereign power.

Source  ·  p. 59 Joseph Saint-Rémy (des Cayes), Pétion et Haïti: étude monographique et historique, tome 4 (Paris: Auguste Durand, 1857), p. 59; English translation, Rasanblaj.