Word: souci
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rose to greet it. Luncheon was served amid bougainvillea blooms, mango trees, pomegranates. From the air the party later saw the craggy citadel where Blackamoor Christophe. self-appointed Henri I of Haiti, once dared Napoleon to come and get him. They saw the ruins of his palace of Sans Souci where the ebony ruler, stricken twice with paralysis, split his weary brain with a golden bullet from a jeweled pistol. They descended to visit the castle where Pauline Bonaparte, sprightly sister of the Emperor, held a tropical court filled with tropic passions...
...ruled for nine years. His palace of Sans Souci had a brook that ran under it to cool the rooms. He imported two ladies from Philadelphia to take care of his children. With unique ingenuity, he literally found money growing upon trees and gave Haiti a stable currency. He encouraged trade, organized an enormous commerce in sugar, corresponded as an equal with European kings and built a fortress, on the top of a hill near his capital of Cap Hai'tien. In 1820, when an army was marching on his palace, Henry Christophe sent his children away and shot...
...bread so sans souci...
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