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1870-01-15

Salnave shot on the ruins of the palace

Haitian

PUBLIC BUILDINGS. The National Palace, built in 1772, was burned on 20 December 1869, at the entry of the Cacos into Port-au-Prince. It was a fine building, placed to the E. of the place Pétion. Salnave was shot on 15 January 1870 on its still smoking ruins, tied to a red post. The national palace built by President Salomon in 1882 blew up on 8 August 1912. Architect Léon Loforestrie. The present palace in reinforced concrete was built by Georges Baussan in 1918.

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

Source  ·  p. t. III, p. 464 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. III) (1927), p. t. III, p. 464