Toussaint L'Ouverture

[ French too-san loo-ver-tyr ]

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Fran·çois Do·mi·nique [f, r, ah, n, -, swa, dawmee-, neek], 1743–1803, Haitian patriot and leader of the Haitian Revolution slave rebellion.

/ tusɛ̃ luvɛrtyr /

Toussaint L'OuverturePierre Dominique?17431803MHaitianPOLITICS: revolutionary leader Pierre Dominique (pjɛr dɔminik). ?1743–1803, Haitian revolutionary leader. He was made governor of the island by the French Revolutionary government (1794) and expelled the Spanish and British but when Napoleon I proclaimed the re-establishment of slavery he was arrested. He died in prison in France

The words just quoted come from Wordsworth's sonnet to Toussaint l'Ouverture.

Hayti became afterwards the theatre of the exploits of the ever-glorious Toussaint l'Ouverture.

The moral character of Toussaint L'Ouverture is even more worthy of admiration than his intellectual acuteness.

They forthwith took the side of the rebels, who in Toussaint l'Ouverture found a leader of terrible force of will.

From that day henceforth he was called Toussaint l'Ouverture.

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