Triumph To Tragedy - Book One

In 1771, young Jean Baptiste Bayard returned from his studies in Paris to his Caribbean island home on St. Domingue - now the Republic of Haiti, unsure whether a life on his family's plantation would suit him. He soon meets and falls in love with the beautiful Marie Jasmine, and the two begin an exciting life together in the French colony - unaware of the drama, societal upheaval, and revolutionary war on the horizon.     This is the untold story of this era, long absent from