Editing Henri Christophe (section)

==End of reign==
[[File:Musée du Panthéon National Haïtien (8070550861).jpg|150px|thumb|left|The pistol used in Henri Christophe's suicide]]

Despite promoting education and establishing a legal system called the ''Code Henry'',<ref name=CodeHenry>Henri Christophe, King of Haiti, 1767–1820. ''[https://archive.org/details/codehenry00hait Code Henry],'' Roux, P. (Pierre), printer, Au Cap-Henry [Cap-Haïtien, Haiti], 1812, {{ISBN|0548822247}}</ref> King Henry was an unpopular, [[Autocracy|autocratic]] [[monarch]]. His realm was constantly challenged by Petion's government of the south, in which ''gens de couleur'' held power. Toward the end of Christophe's reign, public sentiment opposed what many considered his feudal policies of forced labor, which he intended to use to develop the country.<ref name="ss">[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/httoc.html Smucker, Glenn R. "Social Structure"], ''A Country Study: Haiti'' (Chapter 6 – Haiti: Historical Setting (Anne Greene, editor), [[Library of Congress]], December 1989</ref> Ill and infirm at age fifty-three, King Henry died by suicide by shooting himself with a [[silver bullet]] rather than risk a [[Coup d'état|coup]] and assassination.<ref name="Monfried" /> His son and heir was assassinated 10 days later. He was buried within the [[Citadelle Laferrière]].<ref name="Post-Gazette-26-aug-1942">"[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1129&dat=19420826&id=dtkOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=C2oDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1878,1037024 The Black Hitler]", ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'', 26 August 1942</ref>

His descendants continued to be among the powerful of Haiti. [[Pierre Nord Alexis]], President of Haiti from 1902 to 1908, was Christophe's grandson.<ref name=BGeorges>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~htiwgw/familles/fiches/000064.htm|title=Blézine Alexis née Georges}}</ref> [[Michèle Bennett]], who married  [[Jean-Claude Duvalier]] and was First Lady of Haiti during his administration (1980 to 1986), is Christophe's great-great-great-granddaughter.<ref name=EBennett>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~htiwgw/familles/fiches/008224.htm|title=Ernest Bennett}}</ref><ref name=GBennett>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~htiwgw/familles/fiches/125965.htm|title=Georgie Bennett}}</ref>