27179: Paquiot(reply): Re: 27165: Moose (ask) Re: 27151: Jacques-Paquiot Constant (reply) Re: 27140 Haitian Presidents for Life (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From Jacques-Paquiot

Some became for-life by their own decree, with or without ratification by the House of
Deputies; sometimes the House itself voted to give the Prez a for-life term.
The palace exploded in 1912 under Tancrède Auguste.
Vilbrun Guillaume Sam surely wasn't napping at the French Embassy where he had sought
refuge; he was taken from there and killed by the mob in July 1915. That same night, the
Marines landed at Bizoton.


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I gather "President for Life" was a self-awarded title?
Wasn't there a President Sam who had the misfortune to be home napping one afternoon in
1915 when some decided, with the aid of explosives, to send the Palis in the general
direction of Argentina?




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