Toussaint was found dead in the fort of Joux and was buried at Saint-Pierre.

On 7 floréal, Year XI (27 April 1803), Toussaint was found stretched out dead on the foul straw that covered his pallet. He was buried without ceremony in the cemetery of Saint-Pierre, a village at the foot of the château de Joux. No sign today reveals the place where he rests. Some have refused to believe that his death was natural. Without raising any accusation of deprivation of food, one may loudly affirm that the lack of exercise, confinement in a damp dungeon, a winter harsh for a white man and deadly for a Black man, finally the unworthy manner in which he was treated, the destitution of all things, even of coffee, a drink of imperious necessity to him, the imposition of a degrading costume, the refusal to give him his title of general, the separation from his wife and his children, whom he adored and of whom he was never given any news, the memory of his past grandeur compared with his present state, the regrets, perhaps the remorse for many faults and many crimes, everything conspired to hasten his end.