Partial and partial recognition – Liberation
April 17, 1825, Charles X, « ordered » in Haiti to pay compensation of 150 million francs to « Switch the old settlers ». In exchange, France « Confer » independence to its former colony. However, she had released herself alone, through a long war of liberation, twenty-one years earlier, in 1804. But, in the colonial context and 19th century slavery, Haiti is both a monstrosity and a threat: no civilized nation is ready to recognize this state born of a victorious revolution of black slaves.
Two hundred years later, on April 17, 2025, by a press release, President Emmanuel Macron returned to this story. Side side, a speaking at the top of the state in order to « Look at this story opposite » and « Refuse forgetting and erasure ». The announcement also of the establishment of a Franco-Haitian mixed commission of historians, co-chaired by Gusti-Klara Gaillard Pourchet, Haitian historian whose work has largely contributed to clarify this event. On the battery side, the lack of a request for forgiveness, without any reference to the terms of « repair » and « Restitution »as well as a biased method which remains entangled in an imperial vision.
Present the Haitian revolution as « True to the Spirit » And « In harmony with the ideals of the French Revolution » is somewhat reductive; She also and above all embodies her L
