Toussaint Louverture, a former slave, declared himself commander in chief of the French army in Saint Domingue (modern-day Haiti), even though he was ostensibly at war with France. How he did so is ...
Après l’exposition « De Saint-Domingue à Haïti – Relations maritimes avec Paimboeuf », la ville de Paimboeuf a décidé de requalifier l’un de ses quais au nom de cette figure de la révolution haïtienne ...
The French president paid tribute to Toussaint Louverture, the leader of the Haitian Revolution, but said nothing about the lingering effects of France’s slaving past. By Constant Méheut and Catherine ...