But Daut’s “The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe,” isn’t a novel— even if at times its fascinating prose about the self-proclaimed king and veteran of the Haitian ...

Standing alongside the armed soldiers depicted in the monument is a young drummer boy. He is Henry Christophe, then a boy of 12, and the future king of Haiti. Born in 1767 in the British colony of ...

Two centuries ago this month, France pulled off one of history’s greatest armed extortions: After the first three leaders of a newly freed Haiti refused to cave in to hefty ...

But Daut’s “The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe” (Penguin Random House, $40), isn’t a novel— even if at times its fascinating prose about the self ...

Marlene Daut, a historian and expert on the Haitian Revolution, is the author of “The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe.” ...