| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover; The Memoir of General Toussaint Louverture; Copyright; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Introduction; PREFACE TO THE TRANSCRIPT AND ENGLISH TRANSLATION; Map of Place Names Mentioned in the Memoir; Original Transcript and English Translation; Memoire du General Toussaint Louverture: Transcript; Memoir of General Toussaint Louverture: English Translation; INDEX |
| Summary |
Here is an annotated, scholarly, multilingual edition of the only lengthy text personally written by Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture: the memoirs he wrote shortly before his death in the French prison of Fort de Joux. The translation is based on an original copy in Louverture's hand never before published. Historian Philippe Girard begins with an introductory essay that retraces Louverture's career as a slave, rebel, and governor. Girard provides a detailed narrative of the last year of Louverture's life, and analyzes the significance of the memoirs and letters from a historical and linguistic perspective. The book includes a full transcript, in the original French, of Louverture's handwritten memoirs. The English translation appears side by side with the original. The memoirs contain idiosyncrasies and stylistic variations of interest to linguists |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Toussaint Louverture, 1743-1803.
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| SUBJECT |
Toussaint Louverture, 1743-1803. fast (OCoLC)fst00004532 |
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Generals -- Haiti -- Biography
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Revolutionaries -- Haiti -- Biography
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Toussaint Louverture -- 1743-1803
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Revolutionaries.
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Generals.
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Haiti -- History -- Revolution, 1791-1804.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85058354
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Haiti.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Girard, Philippe R., editor, translator.
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| ISBN |
1306315891 |
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9781306315890 |
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