Madame Max Adolphe — identified by Abbott as Rosalie Bosquet (and in some sources Rosalie Bousquet) — was one of the most powerful figures in the Duvalier apparatus: commander within the VSN (Volontaires de la Sécurité Nationale, the tonton-macoutes), directly associated with the operations of fort-dimanche, and, under Jean-Claude Duvalier, the VSN's national chief.
She belongs in the vault not only as a terror-apparatus figure but as one of the people whose cooperation was decisive in Februa...