May 21, 2012, 5:38 am

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The Haitian National Anthem was written in 1903 in connection with the country’s centennial celebration. The words are by JUSTIN LHÉRISSON (1873-1907), the music by NICOLAS GEFFRARD (1871-1930). Haiti is the only Latin-American republic with French as its official language. ‘La Dessalinienne’ was sung for the first time on November 29 1903, at the Petit Théatre Sylvain in Port-au-Prince in commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of the occupation of Gonaïves.

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