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1801-01-20

Pétion and Dupont reached Paris, destitute, and applied to the minister Forfait for active service.

Haitian

They therefore set out with Aly for the mother country on 21 vendémiaire, Year IX (13 October 1800) (3). Taken prisoner at the entrance of the Channel, they were conducted to Portsmouth. It was only in the month of nivôse (January), after having suffered all the pains of the prison hulks, that they obtained leave to be sent back on parole. Landed at Fécamp, they arrived in Paris on 30 nivôse (20 January 1801). Lodged in a modest furnished room, rue du Cloître-Sainte-Opportune, destitute of everything, they applied to Citizen Forfait, minister of the navy, to be put on active service.

Source  ·  p. 159 Joseph Saint-Rémy (des Cayes), Pétion et Haïti: étude monographique et historique, tome 2 (Paris: chez l'auteur, 1854), p. 159; English translation, Rasanblaj.