Former Senate house, Port-au-Prince. A guard is posted at its door after the dissolution of the Constituent Assembly, which sat there.

Hérard Dumesle had a guard placed at the door of the former Senate house, where the Assembly sat. At last the coup d’état was consummated; the town of Port-au-Prince looked upon it with indifference, because it was in general Riviériste. The old Boyéristes rejoiced at it, because it was bound to raise up new enemies against the President; they grew only the bolder in conspiring, all the more since they expected at every moment the news of a revolt against Rivière Hérard, which they had long been preparing in the Department of the South.