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from 1875 to 1878. As a legislator, he represented the 14th district. In 1879, he was a member of the constitutional convention. As a
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with his father where he attended school. Allain occasionally went by the nickname "Soulouque". At one point in the 1850s, Allain was travelling to France to meet his master. Crowds gathered at the port to meet him, believing him to be the
Haitian leader,
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