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1773-05-15

General Bonnet born at Leogane

Haitian

Léogane gave birth to Queen Anacaona, who was a poet; to General Bonnet, born on 15 May 1773; to General Inginac; to General Ségrettier, member of the provisional government of ’43; to General Marion, born on the habitation Sarebousse on 2 December 1772. General Gédéon was born there and died in 1827, he who commanded the arrondissement under Boyer; to Diana Rampsay, a woman who wrote in 1849 a geography of Haiti for the use of schools and who devoted herself to the instruction of youth; to Ignace Nau, a poet of genius; to Lamartinière, one of the heroes of the Crête à Pierrot ( See this word and Cortad. )

Rouzier tells this under the entry LEOGANE.

Source  ·  p. t. III, p. 155 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. III) (1927), p. t. III, p. 155