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Today is a celebratory day for all the haitian people around the world as we cel…


Today is a celebratory day for all the haitian people around the world as we celebrate the Haitian Flag Day. The Haitian flag was adopted on May 18th 1803, on the last day of the Congress of Arcahaie. Haitian lore holds that the newly appointed revolutionary leader Jean-Jacques Dessalines created the flag by taking a French tricolor and ripping out the white center, which he discarded. He then asked Catherine Flon (p.4) to sew the remaining bands together. The white pale removed, the blue was taken to represent Haiti’s black citizens and the red the gens de couleur. –
Aujourd’hui est un jour de célébration pour tous les Haïtiens du monde entier alors que nous célébrons le Jour du drapeau haïtien. Le drapeau haïtien a été adopté le 18 mai 1803, le dernier jour du congrès de l’Arcahaie. La tradition haïtienne soutient que le dirigeant révolutionnaire nouvellement nommé, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, a créé le drapeau en prenant un drapeau tricolore français et en déchirant le centre blanc, qu’il a jeté. Il a ensuite demandé à Catherine Flon (p.4) de coudre les bandes restantes. La pâle blanche a été enlevée, le bleu a été pris pour représenter les citoyens noirs d’Haïti et le rouge la gens de couleur. –
Jodi a se yon jou selebrasyon pou tout Ayisyen atravè mond lan nap selebre Jou drapo ayisyen an. Li te adopte nan dat 18 me 1803, dènye jou Kongrè Arcahaie. Tradisyon ayisyen an kenbe lidè revolisyonè ki fèk nonmen an, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, te kreye drapo a nan pran yon tricolor franse kote li te chire sant blan an, ke li te jete. Lè sa a, li te mande Catherine Flon koud bann ki rete yo. Ble a te pran pou reprezante sitwayen nwa Ayiti yo ak wouj moun koulè yo. –
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