Toussaint meets his sons at Ennery

In February 1802, the sons of Toussaint, Isaac and Placide, having arrived at the Cap with the Leclerc expedition, came to visit their father at Ennery, accompanied by M. Coisnon, their tutor. Toussaint was at the Gonaïves, where a courier went to warn him. He hurried to Ennery on 9 February. He pressed his sons to his heart, covered them with kisses and said to them: “My children, if you abandon me, you will open in my heart a wound that will never close.” M. Coisnon told him that the first consul was sending him his children so that they might be, at his side, the interpreters of the French government. Isaac presented to his father a gold box in which was a letter from Bonaparte, bearing the seal of the State, hung from a silk cord. Toussaint read it. He then expressed his gratitude to M. Coisnon for the care he had given his sons, and he added: “You will tell General Leclerc that I will treat with him only when he has halted the progress of his army.” He embraced his children and took again the road to the Gonaïves. He addressed to General Leclerc packets that were handed over to…

Rouzier tells this under the entry Ennery.