HAITI - Jean-Pierre BOYER (1776-1850, "Supreme Chief", Presi - Lot 139

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HAITI - Jean-Pierre BOYER (1776-1850, "Supreme Chief", Presi - Lot 139
HAITI - Jean-Pierre BOYER (1776-1850, "Supreme Chief", President of Haiti from 1820 to 1843) / Piece signed by his hand, 2 p large in-4 on paper in double sheet, superb and rare vignette on the letterhead of the Republic of Haiti with the title "Jean-Pierre Boyer President of Haiti", given at the "National Palace" of Port-au-Prince on November 10, 1825, "year twenty-second of the Independence of Haiti", countersignature of the Secretary General: "In view of the provisions of Vice-Consul of France, in Cap-Haitian, granted by His Majesty Charles X, King of France and Navarre, to Mr. Mollien, on the fourteenth of August eighteen hundred and twenty-five, let us mandate and order to all those who will be able to do so, Monsieur Mollien be admitted and recognized in Cap-Haitian as Vice-Consul of France, and that he exercise his functions without any trouble or impediment" [Gaspard-Théodore Mollien (1796-1872) had an unusual life: he was one of the few survivors of the famous "Raft of the Medusa", he was an explorer of Cape Verde, Senegal, Gambia, Niger, he was on a mission in Colombia before his functions in Haiti, he was Consul General in Havana from 1831 to 1848]
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