Bruno Blanchet


Bruno Blanchet, was an interim president of the Republic of Haiti.

Political context

The government of Jean-Jacques Dessalines decided to undertake an agrarian reform for the benefit of the former slaves without land, he was assassinated on in Pont-Rouge, north of Port-au-Prince, by his collaborators, Alexandre Pétion, Jean-Pierre Boyer, André Rigaud and Bruno Blanchet who acted as an intermediary between all of them without forgetting Henri Christophe who was in the north.
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. Nevertheless, during the first months of 1807, power was still vacant in the South since the partition of the country in December 1806.

Political responsibility

Bruno Blanchet took part in the Constituent Assembly on 18 December 1806. He presented to the National Assembly on 27 December 1806, the report of the commission with a view to getting the new Constitution adopted before the parliamentarians. Haiti is declared a republic with a president and a senate, and a rigid separation of powers between the two. Christophe will not accept the terms of this new Constitution and will try to take Port-au-Prince. He will be repulsed by the defenders of Alexander Pétion and will retire to the North of Haiti.
Secretary of State Bruno Blanchet provisionally becomes Acting President of the Republic of Haiti from 19 January 1807 to 10 March 1807.
On 10 March 1807, Alexander Petion officially became President of the Republic and appointed Bruno Blanchet Secretary General of the Government.