Saint Domingue [ Trade / Politics & Society ]
… the colony. ‘Deprived of the [Parisian] promenade’, one journalist wrote in 1786, ‘we have only the theatre as a public meeting point.’ 15 Despite the opening of some bookstores, coffeehouses and dance halls after the 1770s, the celebrated …
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