Pauline and Leclerc—Leclerc receives the command of the expedition to St. Domingo—Position of affairs in St. Domingo at this time—Toussaint l’Ouverture—Amusing scene between Pauline and Madame Junot—Reluctance of Pauline to accompany her husband to the West Indies incorrectly attributed to an infatuation for the actor Lafon—Her innocence of all responsibility for the delay in the starting of the expedition—Stanislas Fréron a fellow-passenger with the Leclercs on the Admiral’s flagship—Arrival at Cap-Français—Apparent subjugation of the island—Duplicity of Toussaint—Outbreak of yellow fever among the French : terrible mortality—Calumnies against Pauline—Her courage and sang-froid in the midst of the perils which surround her—French insurrection of the blacks, who invest Cap-Français—Pauline refuses to take refuge with the French ships in the harbour, and has to be removed from her house by force—Repulse of the negroes—Illness and death of Leclerc—Pauline sails for France on the Swiftsure—Fresh calumnies—Arrival of the Swiftsure at Toulon—Honours paid to the remains of Leclerc—Pauline returns to Paris.

DOI link for Pauline and Leclerc—Leclerc receives the command of the expedition to St. Domingo—Position of affairs in St. Domingo at this time—Toussaint l’Ouverture—Amusing scene between Pauline and Madame Junot—Reluctance of Pauline to accompany her husband to the West Indies incorrectly attributed to an infatuation for the actor Lafon—Her innocence of all responsibility for the delay in the starting of the expedition—Stanislas Fréron a fellow-passenger with the Leclercs on the Admiral’s flagship—Arrival at Cap-Français—Apparent subjugation of the island—Duplicity of Toussaint—Outbreak of yellow fever among the French : terrible mortality—Calumnies against Pauline—Her courage and sang-froid in the midst of the perils which surround her—French insurrection of the blacks, who invest Cap-Français—Pauline refuses to take refuge with the French ships in the harbour, and has to be removed from her house by force—Repulse of the negroes—Illness and death of Leclerc—Pauline sails for France on the Swiftsure—Fresh calumnies—Arrival of the Swiftsure at Toulon—Honours paid to the remains of Leclerc—Pauline returns to Paris.

Pauline and Leclerc—Leclerc receives the command of the expedition to St. Domingo—Position of affairs in St. Domingo at this time—Toussaint l’Ouverture—Amusing scene between Pauline and Madame Junot—Reluctance of Pauline to accompany her husband to the West Indies incorrectly attributed to an infatuation for the actor Lafon—Her innocence of all responsibility for the delay in the starting of the expedition—Stanislas Fréron a fellow-passenger with the Leclercs on the Admiral’s flagship—Arrival at Cap-Français—Apparent subjugation of the island—Duplicity of Toussaint—Outbreak of yellow fever among the French : terrible mortality—Calumnies against Pauline—Her courage and sang-froid in the midst of the perils which surround her—French insurrection of the blacks, who invest Cap-Français—Pauline refuses to take refuge with the French ships in the harbour, and has to be removed from her house by force—Repulse of the negroes—Illness and death of Leclerc—Pauline sails for France on the Swiftsure—Fresh calumnies—Arrival of the Swiftsure at Toulon—Honours paid to the remains of Leclerc—Pauline returns to Paris.