Suzanne Simone Baptiste Louverture
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Suzanne Simone Baptiste Louverture (around 1742 – May 19, 1816 in Haiti) was the second wife of Toussaint Louverture and the "Dame-Consort" of the French colony of Saint-Domingue.[1]
After being a coachman and a driver, Toussaint was freed at the age of thirty-three, and then married Suzanne Simone Baptiste.[2] Together, they had two biological sons, Isaac (1782-1854) and Saint-Jean Toussaint (1791-1804). She had a prior son, Placide (1781-1841, with Seraphim Le Clerc, a man of mixed-race descent), who Toussaint adopted.
Politics
When in 1801 the constitution appointed Toussaint as governor of Saint-Domingue, she received the title of "Dame-Consort."
