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# An excellent opening for a biography: nobody liked him
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/otlichnoe-nachalo-biografii-on-nikomu-ne-nravilsia/
- Published: 2021-02-25T10:45:43.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:41:30.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: NB!, Society, People

An excellent opening for a biography: nobody liked him. But then, Léger-Félicité Sonthonax, the Convention's commissioner in the days of the Haitian Revolution, lived a short but interesting life. He freed the slaves of Saint-Domingue, for one thing