Bruno Blanchet (1760–1822) was an interim president of the Republic of
Haiti.
Political context
The government of
Jean-Jacques Dessalines decided to undertake an agrarian reform for the benefit of the former slaves without land, he was assassinated on 17 in Pont-Rouge, north of Port-au-Prince, by his collaborators,
Alexandre Pétion,
Jean-Pierre Boyer
Jean-Pierre Boyer (15 February 1776 – 9 July 1850) was one of the leaders of the Haitian Revolution, and President of Haiti from 1818 to 1843. He reunited the north and south of the country into the Republic of Haiti in 1820 and also annexed ...
,
André Rigaud and Bruno Blanchet who acted as an intermediary between all of them without forgetting
Henri Christophe
Henri Christophe (; 6 October 1767 – 8 October 1820) was a key leader in the Haitian Revolution and the only monarch of the Kingdom of Haiti.
Christophe was of Bambara ethnicity in West Africa, and perhaps of Igbo descent. Beginning with ...
who was in the north.
During the secession of the North of Haiti by King Henry, the South of the country became a republic under the military authority of Alexander Pétion. Nevertheless, during the first months of 1807, power was still vacant in the South since the partition of the country in December 1806.
Political responsibility
Bruno Blanchet took part in the
Constituent Assembly
A constituent assembly (also known as a constitutional convention, constitutional congress, or constitutional assembly) is a body assembled for the purpose of drafting or revising a constitution. Members of a constituent assembly may be elected b ...
on 18 December 1806. He presented to the National Assembly on 27 December 1806, the report of the commission with a view to getting the new Constitution adopted before the parliamentarians. Haiti is declared a republic with a president and a senate, and a rigid separation of powers between the two. Christophe will not accept the terms of this new Constitution and will try to take
Port-au-Prince (early January 1807). He will be repulsed by the defenders of Alexander Pétion and will retire to the North of Haiti.
Secretary of State Bruno Blanchet provisionally becomes Acting President of the Republic of Haiti from 19 January 1807 to 10 March 1807.
On 10 March 1807, Alexander Pétion officially became President of the Republic and appointed Bruno Blanchet Secretary General of the Government.
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1760 births
1822 deaths
1820s suicides