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[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: "Jaqueline Labrom (Migration)" <voyageslumiere@haitelonline.com>
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I'm sure there are many of you who do not know about this Association
so am passing this on to you.  I think there may be many of you who are
interested to know about this book that they are thinking of publishing
about the Coats of Arms under Christophe's reign. I know that there are
coats of arms for the Duc de Limonade and the Duc de Marmelade!!!
Wonderful eh?

Jacqui Labrom

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I am writing not only as a member of the Association de Gnalogie d'Hati
but
also on behalf of the College of Arms in London, the official body dealing
with
matters relating to heraldry and genealogy on behalf of the Crown in the
United
Kingdom and the Commonwealth.



Among the many hundreds of heraldic and genealogical manuscripts we hold
here,
one particularly unusual example is a volume entitled the Armorial Gnral
du
Royaume d'Hayti, a book containing paintings of coats of arms granted in
1811
by Henry Christophe to his new nobility. We have always received a steady
stream of individual enquiries relating to this fascinating item,
including
requests for photographs of individual pages, from people of Haitian
descent or
with relevant historical interests, and we have now decided (not before
time,
perhaps) to publish the whole manuscript in a fitting way.

As will shortly be advertized on our website (www.college-of-arms.gov.uk)
and
elsewhere, a complete photographic reproduction of the manuscript is
planned,
with historical and heraldic essays by way of introduction, and where
possible
notes about the individuals named in the armorial. The beauty and
eccentricity
of the heraldry is bound to ensure a wide readership among those
interested in
heraldry for its own sake as well as those with Haitian interests.
However, as
with many books that are slightly off the beaten track, it needs to be
substantially paid for in advance of publication. The College of Arms is
an
official body but it does not receive public funds and the income deriving
from
its official activities has by law to be returned into Crown purposes, so
we
are unable to support the publication directly ourselves. We have
therefore
produced a publicity leaflet, offering the book in advance of publication
to
subscribers at a discounted price. Subscribers who take up this
opportunity
will, if they wish, have their names published in the finished volume.