Third in a teaching series Manigat wrote for Haitian secondary pupils and first-year students, this volume places two rivals of the early republic side by side while refusing to hyphenate them, on the ground that their lives were antithetical in origin, temperament and reputation. The first study reads Henry Christophe as an enlightened despot on the Prussian model, taking the name of his palace at Sans-Souci as a deliberate borrowing from Frederick II, and works from royal ordinances, the correspondence with Clarkson and Wilberforce and the letters of English teachers recruited to the north to set out five aims of the king's education policy, among them mass instruction weighted toward science and technique and separate public schooling for girls. The second study treats Petion's land policy from 1807 to 1818, arguing that the famous free grants were one instrument among leases and sales of state property, that the whole was improvised, and that officers and officials took the largest shares.