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1908-07-10

Port-au-Prince fire: Fire on Grand rue

Haitian

(Jeanne Desvignes) Place Vallière of 12 June 1857 [Myrtil Bruno], of 28 February 1865 (Théâtre), of 7 May 1865, of 19 March 1866 [J. B. Hepburn) of the rue Pavé of 4 September 1877, of 24 June 1878 (Malary) of 4 July 1879 (Boyer Bazelais insurrection), of 22 and 23 September 1883 (pillage), of 4 July 1888 (the chamber), of 7 July 1888 (Minister Artaud); these last two caused the name Savane Salomon to be given to the destroyed neighborhoods. Fires of 30 October 1907 rue du Peuple, of 5 July 1908 (Voltaire house), 10 July 1908 Grand rue. We pass over them, for the list of fires is long.

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

Source  ·  p. t. III, p. 463 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. III) (1927), p. t. III, p. 463