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1804-10-08

Dessalines celebrated his accession to the throne at the Cap, with Corneille Bresse officiating, and the other towns repeated the ceremony the same day.

Haitian

The new Emperor betook himself to Cap; there he had the ceremony of his accession to the throne celebrated on 8 October; Corneille Bresse, a Capuchin father, officiated pontifically; the cannon thundered; banquets and dances marked the festival, as is customary. The other towns of the empire also had, on the same day, a repetition of the same scenes of official joy (1).

Source  ·  p. 65 Joseph Saint-Rémy (des Cayes), Pétion et Haïti: étude monographique et historique, tome 4 (Paris: Auguste Durand, 1857), p. 65; English translation, Rasanblaj.