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[[image:villaret de joyeuse.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse.]] Admiral '''Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse''' (also ''Louis Thomas de Joyeuse'', in [[1792]] ''Louis Thomas Villaret-Joyeuse'') (May 29 [[1750]] Auch, France - July 24 1812, Venice) was the commander the 12 ship  Brest fleet with which the bulk  [[General Leclerc]]'s troops was dispatched to [[Saint-Domingue]] in [[1801]]. The goal was the annihilation of blacks and the re-establishment of [[slavery]]. 

Joyeuse lobbied against the emancipation of slaves in the French colonies. He was a participant of the [[French Revolution]], but later had to go into exile due to his connections with [[royalists]]. In 1801 he was recalled into service by [[Napoléon Bonaparte]] who had begun to launch his offensive against [[Toussaint Louverture]] and the Haitian Revolution.

==Villaret de Joyeuse and the events of 1791==
In [[1791]] Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse, who had just been given the command of the frigate ''La Prudente'', was sent on a mission to transport French troops to Saint-Domingue. Arriving shortly before the breakout of the [[Boukman Rebellion]] that launched the Haitian Revolution, he then helped governor [[Philibert François Rouxel, viscount de Blanchelande]] to transport troops around the French colony.

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'''Image:''' [[:image:Villaret de joyeuse II.jpg|Engraving of Admiral Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse]] by J. N. Joly

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