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Léger-Félicité Sonthonax (7 March 1763 – 23 July 1813) was a French abolitionist and Jacobin before joining the Girondist party, which emerged in 1791. During the French Revolution, he controlled 7,000 French troops in Saint-Domingue during part of the Haitian Revolution. His official title was Civil Commissioner.
Léger-Félicité Sonthonax, né, le 7 mars 1763 à Oyonnax, où il est mort, le 23 juillet 1813, est un révolutionnaire français girondin.
- 23 juillet 1813 (à 50 ans)Oyonnax
- 7 mars 1763Oyonnax
- Université de Bourgogne
- française
Léger-Félicité Sonthonax, a terrorist French commissioner, allowed Toussaint to rule and made him governor-general. But the ascetic Black general was repelled by the proposals of the European radical to exterminate the Europeans, and he was offended by Sonthonax’s atheism, coarseness, and immorality.
Abolitionniste convaincu, envoyé par l'Assemblée Législative à Saint-Domingue en 1792, Léger-Félicité Sonthonax entra dans l'histoire en prenant, le 29 août 1793 et pour la première fois dans l'Histoire, la décision d'abolir l'esclavage dans le Nord de la colonie.
Léger Félicité Sonthonax ( b. 17 March 1763; d. 28 July 1813), French politician and lawyer. Sonthonax, a native of Oyonnax, France, was a controversial figure whose actions led to profoundly important but unintended results.
Presented here is a broadside with the text of a proclamation issued by Sonthonax on August 21, 1793, concerning the marriage rights between a free man and an enslaved woman, whose master would receive compensation paid by the Republic.
1. Aug. 1987 · From the mists of the past, biographers are extracting and fleshing out the ghostly figures of the Haitian Revolution. Robert Stein has done this for the Jacobin commissioner and abolitionist, Léger Félicité Sonthonax.
