Bruno Blanchet
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Bruno Blanchet (French pronunciation: [bʁyno blɑ̃ʃɛ]; c. 1760–1822) was secretary of state of the Republic of Haiti.
By nationalizing the land left abandoned by French planters, Jean-Jacques Dessalines incurred the enmity of those who sought to become landowners based on their family ties.[1] Blanchet was fired from his post as treasurer of Jérémie and became an agent of Henri Christophe tasked with convincing general Nicolas Geffrard to lead an insurrection against Dessalines,[2] who was assassinated by his collaborators on 17 October 1806 in Pont-Rouge north of Port-au-Prince.[3]
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. During the first months of 1807, there was no civilian leader of the new republic.
