About this picture: Catherine Flon was the goddaughter of Emperor Jean-Jacques Dessalines who asked her to rip out the white of the French flag to create the first Haitian flag. Flon has been featured on several Haiti banknotes
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The flag of Haiti was adopted on February 25, 1987. Historically, students in Haiti learn that on May 18, 1803, in a congress held at Arcahaie, a township located about fifty miles north of Port-au-Prince, Dessalines created the country’s first flag. Ripping apart a French one