Closeup of Cap François. 15 8bre 1733; arrivée de M. le Marquis de Fayet, général. 1734. Bibliothèque nationale de France. A colonial backwater at its founding in 1676, the port town Cap-Français grew in the proceding century to emerge as the main commercial port and economic capital of Saint Domingue. Housing more than 15,000 inhabitants…