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Gabriel Marie Joseph d'Hédouville

Born

27 July 1755

Died

30 March 1825

An officer of the old army who did not emigrate, Hédouville was imprisoned as a noble during the Terror and afterwards served as chief of staff to Hoche in the pacification of the west. Sent to Saint-Domingue in 1798 as the Directory’s agent, with instructions to reduce Toussaint Louverture’s authority and disband part of his forces, he issued a labour decree binding cultivators to three-year engagements, which was widely read in the colony as a step back towards slavery. His attempt to arrest Moïse in October 1798 provoked a rising, and he left the island within a week, writing to Rigaud to release him from Toussaint’s authority. He negotiated the pacification of the west in January 1800, was afterwards ambassador at Saint Petersburg, and died in 1825.

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