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Notes:: "La P .... e F ... e", or La pauvre femme / by Benoît Joseph Marsollier de Vivetières, first printed Paris, 1796.; A dramatic play in one act, composed by the author in 1792 from eyewitness accounts presented to the Assemblée nationale legislative, concerning the death of Colonel Mauduit, commander of the regiment at Port-au-Prince, Saint-Domingue, March 4, 1791. Mauduit's faithful servant, a negro named Domingue, falls on his sword over his master's body. Not mentioned in the play, however, is the violent circumstances of the treatment of the body of Mauduit after death. The mutilated corpse was dragged through the streets by the citizens of Port-au-Prince and his head was mounted on a bayonette.; Signatures: A-B C (C4 verso blank); Bookseller's advertisements: p. [1], 2nd group.; Errata: p. [2], 2nd group.

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"La mort du colonel Mauduit, ou, Les anarchistes au Port-au-Prince: fait historique, en un acte, et en prose " (1799). John Carter Brown Library. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:14881/

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