Though the author's description of Henri Christophe lacks nuance (and contains factual errors), it certainly contains some fascinating pictures from different angles of Sans Souci, the finest palace of Henri Christophe (I have blogged about the Citadel here, too).
Trouillot claims the name may have come from an African slave leader during the Haitian Revolution who was killed under orders of Christophe, but regardless of the exact origins of the name and inspiration for the palace, it's certainly an example of what de Vastey called our memory of African architectural genius when we covered Egypt, Ethiopia, Carthage, and Old Spain with impressive ruins. Check out the rest of the pictures in the article!
"Though the author's description of Henri Christophe lacks nuance (and factual errors), it certainly contains some fascinating pictures from different angles of Sans Souci" What are you saying? That the description lacks nuance and is full of factual errors, or it lacks nuance and lacks factual errors? The latter interpretation seems to accord best with the way you constructed that sentence.
ReplyDeleteWhoops! I meant it contains factual errors and lacks nuance.
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