On June 18, 1777, the Affiches Americaines announced that Beaumarchais' Barbier de Sevilla and l'Braeur d'un moment, a one-act opera by Monvel, would be performed to the benefit of Mlle Babet, staged by the local amateur theatre society, prior to her departure from her position as director after her marriage to the actor 'Monsieur Acquaire', with whom she was engaged at the Comédie de Port-au-Prince after its foundation in 1778.
