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Under slaveborn Dictator Toussaint L'Ouverture** Haiti had achieved independence. Napoleon challenged it, later captured Toussaint; but his successor, Christophe, kept Haiti free, went on to become its president and king, finally killed himself with a gold bullet. Haiti limits itself to Christophe's (Rex Ingram) rebellion against the French, doubles the excitement with a story of a French officer's wife (Elena Karam) whose father is Christophe's Negro...
...French, ouverture means gap. Toussaint took his surname from his ability to create gaps in the enemy lines...
...MADAME TOUSSAINT'S WEDDING DAY- Thad St. Martin-Little, Brown...
...Toussaint was a buxom Cajun widow with seven children, and well along in years (she was 28). She had not thought seriously of marrying again, but when a fine young fellow like Jean asked her, she said yes. On her wedding day, though it went much against the grain, she thought it more fitting not to go out with the fishing fleet but to sit at home in idle dignity. Mme Toussaint soon found the hours dragging, found herself worrying about the new sleeping arrangements. The little cabin was already crowded: her daughter, almost grownup, slept in the same room...
Till after noon she kept her hardly-held dignity. Then, at the news that shrimp were running, that prices had gone up, that the fleet was shorthanded, Mme Toussaint cast decorum to the winds, bundled her brood into the boat, the Six Little Brothers, set off to lend her efficient aid. It was late that night before the weary fishermen returned, to watch Mme Toussaint and Jean jump over the broomstick together. And as the overworked engine of the Six Little Brothers had broken down, the bride and groom never...