Discours
By: prononcé par M. Bacon de la Chevalerie, président de l'Assemblée générale de la Partie françoise de Saint-Domingue, lors de son installation, le quinze avril mil sept cent quatre-vignt-dix. Imprimé par ordre de l'Assemblée générale, conformément à ses décrets des 15 & 16 avril 1790
Contributors: Peinier, Louis Antoine Thomassin, comte de; Saint-Domingue. Assemblée générale
Publisher: Chez Bourbon, imprimeur du Roi & du Conseil supérieur de Saint-Domingue
Published: 1790
Place of publication: Au Port-au-Prince
Language: fre
Other titles: Papiers relatifs au Comte de Peynier, chef d'escadre.
Notes: Caption title.

Place of publication and name of printer from colophon.

"Extrait des registres de l'Assemblée générale de la Partie françoise de Saint-Domingue. Séance des quinze & seize avril mil sept cent quatre-vingt-dix.": p. 4.

Signatures: [A]².

Bacon de la Chevalerie and his fellow patriots were responsible for forcing Barbé de Marbois, the last French intendant, from the colony of Saint-Domingue. The author, owner of a large sugar plantation in Limonade, and president of the Assemblée générale, a body comprised of land owners and citizens of the Northern, Southern, and Western parts of the colony, writes this incendiary speech to defend the Assemblée against those in France who would seek to bleed Saint-Domingue of its resources and its wealth at the expense of the citizens of Saint-Domingue.

Martin & Walter.  Révolution française, 988.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound as 2nd item of 39 in vol. 1 of 2 vol. set with: Instruction pour les commandans des détachemens des gardes de la Marine, embarqués sur les vaisseaux de Sa Majesté, [Versailles, France?, 1781]

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library: bound in two volumes of works relating to or printed in Saint-Domingue, formerly owned by Louis Antoine Thomassin, Comte de Peinier, who became squadron chief in 1784 and served as governor general of Saint-Domingue from 1789-1790.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Sophia Augusta Brown Fund.