Adultery

The story of President Florvil Hyppolite and his extra marital affair with Victoire Jean-Baptiste, better known by the nickname "La Belle Victory"

Haitian President during the late 1880's and the early 1890's Florvil Hyppolite had a long-standing, very public affair outside of his marriage with Victoire Jean-Baptiste. Long before Bill and Monica, the relationship between the President and the beautiful peasant woman, who worked for First Lady Gelyne Hyppolite, sensationalized the nation, not only for the aforementioned facts, but also because Jean-Baptiste became more prominent in her role as faux-first-lady upon the death of Hyppolite's wife, and because of her supposed affairs with his Minister of War and even his son.

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