BREDA HOUSE

The Bréda house is located on the national road 1, in the heights of Cap Haïtien (in the neighborhood commonly called Top of Cap). It is for the operator and owner of this house, Bayon de Libertat, that Toussaint Louverture works as a slave. Soon postured, Toussaint preserved the surname of this house, called Toussaint Breda. The story tells us that in 1800, at the Port-Republican National Palace, when he was promoted as chief general, Toussaint began to address his former master, while he approached him to take him in his arms: " Gently, Mr. Manager, there's now more distance from me than there used to be to you. " Enter the Bréda home, be just and inflexible, make the black work well in order to add through the prosperity of your small interests to the general prosperity of the administration of the first black, chief general of Sansanto. (Rouzier, Geographical Dictionary of Haiti).

In the past, there was a strong fort, a part of the French colonial defensive system, built by the expeditionary army in 1801. The Bréda housing was also a battleground during the war of independence on November 18, 1803. Today space includes a space in honor of Toussaint Lopenness and Toussaint Louverture National High School, also known as Bréda Lycée.