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iciHaiti - History: 274 years of Port-au-Prince (June 3, 1749 - June 13, 2023) 14/06/2023 09:06:56
It first served as a haven for the sails that the storm was chasing in the channel of the wind. [...] but the immense bay that gently hugs its protective island is not always just beauty. It was not until 1738 that man saw there the ideal place for the organization and centralization of his conquests. It was then that the shape of a city took shape in this place. A few meters from the beach, the first small houses were erected, because man in these times, all troubled by the races of one of the greatest imperialist adventures in history, is linked to the sea, dominated by the sea that he wants to dominate, and must upset his destiny will appear infallibly in the mirror of the horizon. [...] the name of the Hospital which bore the port and which is still that of the mountains which surround the capital comes from the fact that the buccaneers had built a hospital there which disappeared in 1707... According to Saint Méry, chroniclers of that time even wanted this city to be first 'Sainte-Marie-du-Port', founded by the Spaniards. On June 13, 1749, 'the administrators suppressed the parishes of Trou-Bordet and Cul-de-Sac, to form the parish of Port-au-Prince, with a branch at Croix des Bouquets' Here then is Port-au-Prince, definitively created, having become the capital of the richest of the colonies scattered over the seas by French imperialism in full prosperity, dethroning the Cap whose already old splendor has not yet finished dazzling the West Indies and to dream the taste of easy profit and enjoyment [...] In the two centuries of its existence, Port-au-Prince has been destroyed several times, sometimes partially, sometimes completely, sometimes by earthquakes, sometimes by fire, sometimes by civil war. In spite of unparalleled geographical advantages, the pleasantness of its particular topography and its easy and rich vegetation, Port-au-Prince remained for a long time a rather poor city in appearance. [...]" The great movement of improvement and creation determined by the preparations for the exhibition allow us to hope that in a short time Port-au-Prince, which is a city of very rare charm, will be one of the most exciting capitals of the new world. Excerpts from the text "Foundation of Port-au-Prince" published in the catalog of the international exhibition of the bicentenary of the city of Port-au-Prince in 1949 IH/ iciHaiti
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