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1804-12-27

Mentor, held under surveillance at Bayonne, wrote to general Duroc that he was leaving for Saint-Domingue to restore French power.

Haitian

Afterward he lived in isolation, and was not even allowed to take part in the expedition of General Leclerc. He was under surveillance at Bayonne when, on 6 nivôse (28 December 1804), he announced to General Duroc, governor of the palace of the consuls, that he was leaving for Saint-Domingue, where he “will restore French power.” His letter bore as superscription: Mentor, adjutant-commander, chief of the Black men faithful to France, at Saint-Domingue (1).

Source  ·  p. 73 Joseph Saint-Rémy (des Cayes), Pétion et Haïti: étude monographique et historique, tome 4 (Paris: Auguste Durand, 1857), p. 73; English translation, Rasanblaj.