Letters and reports about the dispute over the 1910 loan were also found in the Center of Economic and Financial Archives of the French Finance Ministry, in Savigny-le-Temple, south of Paris.
Edmond Paul’s pamphlet railing against the bank, “Haïti au Soleil de 1880,” was also found there, as was a detailed, handwritten report on the finances of the national bank in the first years of the 20th century, showing how much of Haiti’s coffee tax revenue went to paying French investors. The archives also included an unidentified diplomat’s notes on the 1880 party commemorating the national bank, along with the text of President Lysius Salomon’s toast.
There, we found letters and reports sent between the French foreign minister and diplomats in Port-au-Prince during the 1830s, French government letters and reports on a dispute over a 1910 loan, and many telegrams regarding the National Bank of Haiti. We spent a lot of time in the Diplomatic Archives of France in the suburbs of Paris. How we calculated Haiti’s payments to France But we do want to offer readers an idea of how we researched this series and came to the conclusions we did, as well as to give credit to historians and researchers whose work formed essential building blocks for our stories. We also read hundreds of books and articles, from tomes published shortly after the Haitian revolution began in 1791 to the most recent, which arrived in bookstores in France just months ago. Over the course of more than a year, we examined thousands of pages of original documents found in public and private archives and libraries, mainly in Haiti, the United States and France. This series was the work of four reporters and more than a dozen researchers.
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