The current PC remembrance initiative is largely criticised because of it's bigotted slant. Which is: That France, at a certain point, let go - out of generosity, historical, philosophical magnamity? - the slaves towards liberty and equal rights.

That, of course, is a white man's lie. It is bull crap.

The truth is that Napoleon's armies, the most modern war machine of its time, were utterly defeated by a Haitian black general who led an insurgent army of slaves and - interestingly - helped by a few dozens of freedom loving Polish and Prussian Landsknechte.

The truth is further that France, who had become a citizens republic, never accepted the loss -  perceived as a humiliation by black people - and tried to re-instate the slave system on Hispaniola. And when they saw that that wasn't going to fly, they ransacked, looted and stole, together with the US, the entire treasury of the free Haitian nation.

They bankrupted it's the government and boycotted their goods.

Is it a coincidence that France still marches in lockstep with the US imperialists when it comes to plunder Haiti and oppress the people of Haiti? Today?

I want a French history book which contains an article and a photo of the French president on his knees in front of the war for liberty memorial in Port au Prince begging the people for forgiveness.

Like Willy did in Warsaw in 1970, or Heidi did in Namibia in 2003:

"The USA appears destined by fate to plague America with misery in the name of liberty." Simon Bolivar, Caracas, 1819