Marie-Jeanne Lamartinière

Marie-Jeanne received formal education before marrying Louis Daure Lamartinière [fr], an officer of the Armée Indigène.

Lamartinière was raised on a slave plantation and received formal education from teachers specializing in Haitian Vodou and African culture.

[2] Marie-Jeanne eventually married Louis Daure Lamartinière [fr], an officer of color of the Armée Indigène, a belligerent in the Haitian Revolution.

[3] Reportedly inseparable from him, Marie-Jeanne fought alongside Louis and his army of enslaved men to protect the fort from French forces.

When the battle intensified or French forces approached, she ran to the frontlines and shot her rifle with "wild enthusiam", as characterized by the historian Thomas Madiou.

[15] For the 1967 revision of his play Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History, C. L. R. James loosely based the character Marie-Jeanne around Lamartinière.

James depicted her in battle, and otherwise rewrote her as an enslaved woman whose light skin and mastery of European culture grant her higher status and a servant.

[16] A painting by the Haitian artist François Cauvin that depicts Lamartinière will display in a Fitzwilliam Museum exhibition in 2025.

[17] Still, little is known about her, especially her early life, and in contrast to modern characterizations of the Battle of Crête-à-Pierrot, the historian Jasmine Claude-Narcisse believes she would have wished to blend in and remain anonymous.