Representations in Culture
- "La Mort du Roi Christophe. Note présentée par la noblesse d'Haïti aux trois grands alliés," an 1820 chanson written by Pierre-Jean de Béranger.
- Drums of Destiny (1946), American novel written by Peter Bourne.
- The Kingdom of this World(1949), novel by Alejo Carpentier, first published in Spanish in Mexico as El Reino de Este Mundo.
- Henry Christophe inspired Eugene O'Neill's fictional character The Emperor Jones, the subject of his play by the same name.
- La Tragédie du Roi Christophe (1963), a play written by Martinican Aimé Césaire.
- Henri Christophe: A Chronicle in Seven Scenes, a play by Derek Walcott.
- He was also covered in Madison Smartt Bell's trilogy about the Haitian Revolution
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