Alexandre Sabès, dit Alexandre Pétion (né le 2 avril 1770 à Port-au-Prince – mort le 29 mars 1818 dans la même ville), est un militaire et dirigeant haïtien, ayant combattu pendant la Révolution haïtienne (1791-1804), sous les ordres du général André Rigaud.. Fils d'un riche colon français et d'une mulâtresse, il est envoyé en France en 1788 pour étudier à l'Académie ...

Pétion-Ville (Haitian Creole: Petyonvil) is a commune and a suburb of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in the hills east and separate from the city itself on the northern hills of the Massif de la Selle.Founded in 1831 by president Jean-Pierre Boyer, it was named after Alexandre Sabès Pétion (1770–1818), the Haitian general and president later recognized as one of the country's four founding fathers.

The term Muscadin (French: ), meaning "wearing musk perfume", came to refer to mobs of young men, relatively well-off and dressed in a dandyish manner, who were the street fighters of the Thermidorian Reaction in Paris in the French Revolution (1789-1799). After the coup against Robespierre and the Jacobins of 9 Thermidor Year II, or 27 July 1794, they took on the …