Coutilien Coutard dies at the battle of Sibert saving Pétion

CEMETERIES. In the interior cemetery, situated opposite the place Ste. Anne or Marché Debout, where no one is buried any longer, is found the mausoleum of the count d’Ennery, who died Governor General of the colony in 1776: it is a superb marble monument sheltered by the altar of the old chapel that the unfinished Church of Ste. Anne replaces. One also sees there the tomb of the valiant Coutilien Coutard, who died on 1 January 1807, at the battle of Sibert, saving the life of Pétion: time has eaten away in part the sepulchral stone on which the epitaph of this hero is engraved. The tomb of Dessalines was raised there by madame Inginac; it bore this inscription: “Cit git Dessalines, mort à 48 ans”. President Hippolyte, in 1892, had a superb monument raised there to the founder of the Independence of Haiti. Civique de Gastines, whose ardent soul and sensitive heart could not bear the injustices of his government, and who had come from France to Haiti to know the people whose rights he had defended; the celebrated physician Montègre, who came there to study yellow fever and died of it…

Rouzier tells this under the entry PORT-AU PRINCE [le].