When you get right down to it, Christophe’s fault, and that of his party, was they disappeared too soon, in other words, before the future historians of his most relentless adversaries, Pétion and Boyer; which is why, when it comes to their judgments of his regime, you have to take into account their hatred of the Monarch and the exaggerations that result from it. — Henock Trouillot, Le gouvernement du roi Henri Christophe (1972)