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= Marie-Jeanne Lamartinière = Marie-Jeanne Lamartinière was a Haitian revolutionary.

Biography
Marie-Jeanne Lamartinière is described as a Mulatto and was born in Port-au-Prince. She was likely born to an enslaved African woman and her white French master, though it is unclear whether their relationship was unconsensual or one of subsistence. She may have also had Taíno ancestry. Lamartinière was raised on a slave plantation and received formal education from teachers specializing in Haitian Vodou and African culture.

Marie-Jeanne eventually married Louis Daure Lamartinière, an officer of color of the Armée Indigène, a belligerent of the Haitian Revolution. He served as superior officer during the Battle of Crête-à-Pierrot in 1802. Reportedly inseperable from Louis, Marie-Jeanne fought alongside the army of enslaved men to protect the fort from French forces. She wore a Mamluk-stlye uniform and a bonnet, though some of her hair escaped. She suspended a rifle over her shoulder and a cutlass on her steel belt. Marie-Jeanne crossed the fort to hand out cartidges or load cannons. When the battle intensified or the French approached, she ran to the frontlines and shot her rifle with a "wild enthusiam", as characterized by the historian Thomas Madiou.

Legacy
Lamartinière was depicted in Charles Moravia's 1908 play La Crête-à-Pierrot. She was printed on a 100-gourde coin and a 1954 stamp.

Lamartinière is one of the few named women in the Haitian Revolution. 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. The sociologist Madeleine Sylvain-Bouchereau considers Lamartinière a Haitian symbol of the female soldier, and the historian Dantès Bellegarde compared her to Joan of France, Joan of Arc, and Jeanne Hachette in bravery. She is popularly referred to as "Haiti's Joan of Arc" and is well known across the country.