Charles Borromée Haentjens (27 November 1821 - 21 July 1874) was a

Haiti Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of the Bahamas. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island, which it shares with the Dominican ...

an diplomat and politician.

Biography

Haentjens was the son of a merchant named Charles Christian Haëntjens, whose family moved to

Nantes Nantes (, ; ; or ; ) is a city in the Loire-Atlantique department of France on the Loire, from the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coast. The city is the List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, sixth largest in France, with a pop ...

. Charles Haentjens returned to Paris in diplomacy as the Secretary of the Legation of Haiti from 1859 to 1863,Maximilien Collection 1847-1933 (pg. 1, 21)
/ref> where he conducted business from 1863 to 1864. He was made State Secretary of Finance, Trade and External Relations of Haiti in 1871, then from 1873 to 1874. His son,

Clément Haentjens Clément Haentjens (born 30 May 1847 – 16 January 1923) was a Haitian diplomat and politician. Biography Haentjens is the son of Charles Haentjens, a former Haitian diplomat. He followed the same diplomatic career of his father and became Secr ...

also followed a diplomatic career and would be the State Secretary of Agriculture and Public Works.

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*François Blancpain, Un siècle de relations financières entre Haïti et la France : 1825-1922, 2001 *Revue de la Société haïtienne d'histoire et de géographie, Volumes 170 à 180, 1991 *Antoine Michel, La XIVe législature ..., 1932 *Armelle Pouliquen, Histoire et généalogie de la famille Haentjens de Nantes, 1620-1999 1821 births 1874 deaths Foreign ministers of Haiti Finance ministers of Haiti Government ministers of Haiti Haitian diplomats People from Port-au-Prince {{Haiti-bio-stub