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Haiti 1799 French Broadside

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Haiti 1799 French Broadside
"WINNERS WILL BE NOTIFIED AFTER THE AUCTION ENDS BY THE AUCTIONEER ONCE ALL BIDS HAVE BEEN PROCESSED TO DETERMINE THE WINNER FOR EACH LOT."
Rare broadside, in French, of a letter by Toussaint Louverture to French General Jean Herne. Louverture was Governor General of Saint Domingue, Haiti's name as a then French colony. 7.25'' x 10.5'' document translates in part, ''…peace continues to be maintained all over and the calm…election has already given the first results…'' Dated 1799, five years before Toussaint would die in a French jail and Herne would sign Haiti’s Act of Independence from France. Show-through in margin from tape on verso and rough right edge. Good condition.