1807-01-01
Coutilien Coutard died at the battle of Sibert saving Pétion’s life
Haitian
In the cemetery, where burials no longer take place, are the marble mausoleum of the count d’Ennery, who died Governor General in 1776; the tomb of Coutilien Coutard, who died on 1 January 1807 at the battle of Sibert, saving the life of General Pétion; that of Civique de Gastines, who had come to Haiti to fight the people whose rights he had defended; that of the celebrated physician Montègre, who had come to study yellow fever and died of it; that of Billaud de Varennes, that famous French revolutionary who died in 1819; the monument of Charlotin Marcadieux.
Rouzier tells this under the entry MORNE A TUF.
Source · p. t. III, p. 291
Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. III) (1927), p. t. III, p. 291