The royal palace of Sans Souci was a key component of royal power strategies in the fledging state that emerged from the Haitian Revolution. Despite the site's central role in the production of historical memory in Haiti, negligible archaeological work has been carried out to study the building chronology or organization of space. In 2015, an internation team initiated geophysical survey and archaeological testing with this goal in mind. Professor Monroe will introduce the preliminary results of this fieldwork, revealing a history of settlement extending to the colonial era and providing new insigts on the historical foundations and legacies of this UNESCO World Heritage site