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Revision as of 21:49, 26 February 2006
Madame Villevaleix was Léger Félicité Sonthonax' mistress, "a rich widow with several children." (Parkinson, p. 106). The two later married.
One of her sons, Louis Mesmin Seguy Villevaleix, (stepson of Sonthonax) was one of the the Haitian officials who secured the ratification of the independence treaty with France in 1838.
Reference
- Parkinson, Wenda (1978). This Gilded African. London: Quartet Books. ISBN 0-7043-2187-4
External link
- www.haiti-reference.org: Traîté de commerce entre la France et Haiti - 1938 Treaty between France and Haïti. (French text)