Ville de Plaisance, Plaisance Center, Northern Haiti, is the central business district of Plaisance and is located along the Three Rivers where it abuts Route Nationale 1.
Grand Rue de Plaisance
Neighboring sections
North  7e Bassin |
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West  4e Mapou |
Ville de Plaisance Plaisance |
East 5e La Trouble |
| South 8e Grande Rivière |
About[]
The village, built on uneven ground, formed of red ocher clay, is located about 13 leagues from the Cape; it derives its name from the nature of the localities and from the pleasure one experienced in arriving there by bad roads. It is located at the intersection of the paths leading from Gonaïves to Limbé and Marmelade to Gros-Morne, of which it is placed in the center and equal distance. Its first establishments date back to 1720; its first church 3000 toises (6 km or 4 miles) far from the village dates from 1784; it is under the patronage of St. Michael whose birth comes on September 29. The Northern Department is linked with Gonaïvess by the postal route which passes through the gorges from the mountains of Plaisance and Limbé at 100 meters (328 feet) altitude.
History[]
• On August 14, 1902, Plaisance was taken by the troops of General Nord Alexis, minister of war of the provisional government, for the Firmnists of Gonaives. Firmin embarked in the evening in this City on the American cruiser Cincinnati; and the insurrection he had kindled calmed down.
• In June or July 1914, there was a Plaisance insurrection under the leadership of a man named Ballin. The Gaspard brothers who commanded Ennery's regular troops, arrived to suppress this movement. At their approach, the rebels fled. Gaspard's troops looted some houses in the village. Around August 3, 1915, after the death of Vilbrun Guillaume, there was another Plaisance revolt. At the approach of the Government troops, having at their head Louis Auguste, the rebels fled.
The chain of Plaisance conceals mines of gold, iron, copper, quarries of plaster, jasper, granite, and porphyry, amongst other resources, such as large timber drills. The Monitor of October 24, 1905 published a concession contract made by Mr. Louis Bazelais for the copper mines of the Plaisance chain.
Ville de Plaisance
Buccaneers lived here in large numbers, hunting oxen and wild pigs. This commune was also the refuge of maroons, such as Jean-François, Biassou and Scylla, during the War of Independence.
• Plaisance surrendered to the Spaniards in 1793. On June 22, 1793, Polverel, with a division of freedmen summoned by Antoine Chanlatte, took Plaisance without firing a shot.
The same year, during the proclamation of general freedom in 1793, the workshops of Plaisance, misled by the royalist colonists, took up arms, and assaulted Chanlatte; Sonthonax managed to get away.
At the end of the same year, Toussaint Louverture took possession of Plaisance in the name of Spain. Porchet, commander of the village, not wishing to surrender, withdrew in good order with the French troops at Port-de-Paix.
• In 1794, Plaisance was reconquered from the Spaniards by the French.
• In October 1801, supporters of the Moise conspiracy had moved away from Plaisance. Colonel Vernet marched against them from Gonaïves. At his approach, the rebels abandoned the town after overwhelmed. When Dessalines passed there, he terrified the cultivators who were massacred in large numbers; these unfortunate people were killed with sabers and bayonets. The soldiers dissolved a quarter of the population with the edge of the sword. They stabbed all the prisoners who were taken to Dessalines. After having reestablished order there by a dreadful extermination, Dessalines broke off in pursuit of Moise who was roaming the North, stirring the cultivators into revolt.
• On February 18, 1802, General Desfourneaux, dispatched from the Cape by Captain General Leclerc, against Toussaint Louverture in Gonaïves, settled near Plaisance. The commander of this town, Pierre Dumesvil, a black officer, instead of burning the town at the approach of the French, followed the instructions of Toussaint and met General Leclerc with 300 infantry and 200 cavalry, and made him his submission. The next day Desfourneaux entered Plaisance without striking a blow;
When the Leclerc expedition arrived, Sylla was fighting in the heights of Plaisance for Toussaint with a rare intrepidity. The ex-governor resolved to take the town from Desfourneaux in order to enter into communication with Maurepas, of which he was unaware of the Port-de-Paix submission. He ordered Adjutant General Fontaine to attack a fort erected on the Bidourète estate. A lively fight ensued between General Desfourneaux and Toussaint over the Laforestrie habitation in front of the fort occupied by the natives.
After Toussaint's submission, commanders Sylla and Jasmin, who had retired to the heights of Plaisance, refused to recognize the government of Leclerc. The latter wrote to Toussaint from Tortue and begged him to use the influence he exercised on Sylla to convince him to lay down his arms.
• In September 1802, the insurgents called independents closely surrounded Plaisance, which was occupied by the 13th Colonial, under the orders of Adjutant General Pétion. General Brunet ordered Pétion to drop the pursuit of the insurgents. The soldiers of the 13th were hardly out of town when they discovered along a hill a string of black and yellow corpses hanged from tree branches by the French. The European garrison evacuated Plaisance and surrendered in Gonaives. It was exterminated.
• In January 1803, Plaisance followed the example of Dondon, rebelling against Dessalines, after the assassination of the Sans-Souci Grandpré bands by Christophe.
• Under King Christophe, the Duke of Plaisance was General Magny, whom his troops took prisoner and took over. Port-au-Prince was the seat of this city in 1812.
• In 1824, President Boyer had a large number of emigrant black American cultivators there.
• Monsignor Joseph Desbordes was Duke of Plaisance under the Empire, in 1849.
• On June 2, 1865, Plaisance who had made a pact with Salnave against Geffrard, submitted to General Normil at 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
At its creation by the decree of July 10, 1889 of the provisional government, the commune of Plaisance contained 16 sections;
| 1e La Trouble, 2e Laville, 3e Grande Riviére, 4e Mapou,
5e Bassin, 6e Colline Gobert, 7e Champagne, 8e Haut Martineau, 9e Pilate, 10. Baudin, 11e. Margot, 12e Piment, 13e Dubourg, 14e Riviere Laporte. 15e Jolly, and 16e Riviére Trompette. |
Eventually, the 9th through the 16th were set off to become the commune of Pilate.
Children; Ville de Plaisance