HAITI

HAITI / HAÏTI.

Inauguration of Duvalier-Ville.
Map of Duvalier-Ville and reproduction of a old stamp.
First stamp in a set of 6, issued on 10.12.1962.
Face value: 5 cents of Haitian gourde.
Printing: Photogravure.

Catalogues
- Michel No. 735.
- Scott No. 500.
- StampWorld No. 723.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 843.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 499.

Duvalier-Ville is the name given in July 1961 to Cabaret (in Haitian Creole, Kabarè), in the Ouest department of Haiti, when the dictator François Duvalier started a project to build a new neighborhood in the city with the intention of to perpetuate his name; This denomination was preserved during the mandate of his son and his successor, Jean-Claude Duvalier, until he was deposed and fled the country in 1986. Currently Cabaret has a population of just over 68,000 inhabitants. The city owes its name to the settler who founded it, M. de Cabaret, Comte d’Arquin who was the Governor of the French colony of Saint-Domingue in the early 18th century.