In the late 1970's the Frenchman Olivier Coquelin opened his first resort in the Caribbean, The Habitation LeClerc in the Martissaint slum outside Port-au-Prince, Haiti in the refurbished ruins of the Palace of the Empress Josephine, Napoleons sister, who was married to General Charles LeClerc. Napoleon had sent LeClerc to Haiti to quell the revolution, but the general succumbed to yellow fever and left Haiti in a coffin.

The above painting was commissioned by Coquelin, who also ownedthe Hippopotamus discos in Paris and New York. His objective was to combine the exotic with the erotic. He was evidently an enormousely charming man and he attracted celebrities including Mick and Bianca Jagger to the hotel. There are a few dignitaries in the painting. That is Larry Peabody who designed the hotel in the white suit and Coqueline himself is standing on the bottom steps of the pool bar. The man with his arm extended near the diving board is Sir Kenneth Miller, Olivier's marketing consultant. In the enter of the pool, with dark hair, looks like Manno el Saieh, Isaa's son.