Two centuries ago this month, France pulled off one of history’s greatest armed extortions: After the first three leaders of a newly freed Haiti refused to cave in to hefty French demands to ...

Marlene Daut’s deep dive into Haiti’s first — and only — king reads like a historical novel of a bygone era with Black princes and knights, an elaborate dress code and a palace, Sans-Souci ...

On April 17, 1825, Charles X, brother to Louis XVIII and the new French king, performed a sudden about-face. Charles X issued a decree stating that France would recognize Haitian independence but only ...

Standing alongside the armed soldiers depicted in the monument is a young drummer boy. He is Henry Christophe, then a boy of 12, and the future king of Haiti. Born in 1767 in the British colony of ...

Toussaint was captured and exiled, but the fighting continued under the leadership of Jean Jacques Dessalines and Henri Christophe. On January 1, 1804, Dessalines proclaimed himself ruler of the ...

Christophe Karel Henri de Nerée tot Babberich was a Dutch 19th Century artist who was born in 1880. How much does a Christophe Karel Henri de Nerée tot Babberich cost? Christophe Karel Henri de Nerée ...

But Daut’s “The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe” (Penguin Random House, $40), isn’t a novel— even if at times its fascinating prose about the self ...

Marlene Daut, a historian and expert on the Haitian Revolution, is the author of “The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe.” ...