Notes on Andre Rigaud

• Korngold:   He was the son of a French nobleman and a Haitian.
• He went back to France with Sonthonax.
• Waxman:  Rigaud engineered the capture of Laveaux.
• Toussaint marched on Le Cap. Leveaux was freed.
• B. 1761 in Okay (Leyburn) Grew up in Bordeaux. "fiery, intellectual, brilliant, lacking in self-control and political subtlety."
• Goldsmith:  1783 he fought in America on side of colonists At the time of emancipation he was the dictator of the south and had about 5000 infantry and 1200 calvary.
• After pacification of Toussaint and blacks by Leclerc with Rigaud's help, he was arrested and deported to France.
• He came to the scene pledging no peace until one class exterminated the other (Holly, p. 124)
• Stoddard:  p. 199. He fought for Sonthonax in 1793 in the South, but was defeated.

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• P. 144 Heinl:  Rigaud returned on Dec. 2, 1810. Declared the State of the South.

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• Waxman:  Rigaud was in Fort de Joux the same time that Toussaint was there. Toussaint didn't know of Rigaud's presence.

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