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On 12 January 2010, around 5:53 pm, a 7.0 earthquake struck the Pétion-Ville area. The earthquake caused the collapse of a hospital in the city. [3] The 7.0-magnitude earthquake destroyed many buildings in Port-au-Prince, and a lot of homes in the Montana area, including the Hôtel Montana.
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Cabane Choucoune is a cabaret and thatch-roofed club in Pétion-Ville, Haiti. [1] [2] It was built on 8 December 1940 by Max Ewald. [3]It is known as one of the best méringue dance clubs. [1]
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Les Frères Déjean is a kompa band formed in 1963 under the name Les Frères de Pétion-Ville by its maestro Lyonel Déjean, before being called with current name.It was not until 11 years after the creation of the group for the first album to be recorded.
College La Promesse school owner, Rev. Fortin Augustin, Protestant minister and preacher, was arrested on November 8, 2008. He was charged with involuntary manslaughter and brought to a Haitian police station, [11] after he allegedly told Haitian president René Préval that "the church school had been built with hardly any structural steel or cement to hold its concrete blocks together; he ...
Pétion was born "Anne Alexandre Sabès" in Port-au-Prince to Pascal Sabès, a wealthy French father and Ursula, a free mulatto woman, [4] which made him a quadroon (a quarter African ancestry). [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Like other gens de couleur libres (free people of color) with wealthy fathers, Pétion was sent to France in 1788 to be educated and study ...