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1801-05-09

The central assembly signed the constitution of 1801, whose 77th article charged Toussaint Louverture with sending it to the French government but invited him…

Haitian

The central assembly signed the constitution of 1801, whose 77th article charged Toussaint Louverture with sending it to the French government but invited him to have it executed at once; Toussaint Louverture was named governor for life with the power to name his successor, at a salary of 300 thousand francs.

Source  ·  p. 353, 362, 364 Beaubrun Ardouin, Études sur l'histoire d'Haïti, suivies de la vie du général J.-M. Borgella (t. IV) (1853), p. 353, 362, 364