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Haiti: Notes on Stein's Leger Felicite Sonthonax
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Notes on LEGER FELICITE SONTHONAX

By Robert Louis Stein

  • Born: March 17, 1763
  • Died: July 28, 1813
  • June 2, 1792 appointed one of the commissioners to St. Domingue
  • July 22, 1792 Sonthonax left France. 29 years old. he wanted to enforce the law of April 4, 1792.
  • Sept. 18, 1792 landed.
  • Aug. 29, 1793 Sonthonax freed the slaves of the north. from Stein on p. 79 "It was the most radical step of the Haitian Revolution and perhaps even of the French Revolution."
  • 1795 Sonthonax wrote: quoted in Stein, p. 64 "We were perfectly forgotten by the government; we were the lost sentinels of the Republic in the colonies."
  • Aug. 24, 1797 Sonthonax left colonies for the final time.
  • 1838 Louis Seguy de' Villevaleix, stepson of Sonthonax was Haiti's official who secured the final ratification of the treaty of independence with France.
  • From Mary Hassal's SECRET LETTERS "...Sonthonax, a name which will always fill every Frenchman's breast with horror..." p. 74.
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