Louis-Pantaléon de Noé
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Louis-Pantaléon de Noé, Count of Noé, (November 8 or December 22, 1728–February 25, 1816) was a Creole–French general and peer. The son of a Gascon officer and a Creole landowner, he grew up in the colony of Saint-Domingue before serving as an officer during the War of the Austrian Succession and then the Seven Years' War. He later returned to Saint-Domingue to manage his plantations, where hundreds of slaves produced coffee and especially sugar.
Louis-Pantaléon de Noé | |
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Born | 8 November 1728 Cap-Haïtien |
Died | 25 February 1816 10th arrondissement of Paris |
Nationality | French |
Children | Louis-Pantaléon-Jude-Amédée de Noé |
Returning to Gascony, he lived the life of a grand lord while having his plantations in Saint-Domingue managed. He emigrated during the Revolution and returned to France in 1802. Financially strained, he sought help from a former slave of one of his family's plantations, Toussaint Louverture, who had become the hero of the Haitian Revolution.
In his later life, he became a lieutenant general and a peer of France during the Restoration. After his death, his family maintained the memory of his relationship with Toussaint Louverture. In Victor Hugo's novel Bug-Jargal, many details allow the identification of the two main characters as Louis-Pantaléon de Noé and Toussaint Louverture.