Nicolas-Germain Léonard
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1744 – 1793
Who was Nicolas-Germain Léonard?
Nicolas-Germain Léonard was a poet and one of Guadeloupe's first writers.
Léonard was born in Guadeloupe, but spent most of his life in France, travelling back and forth frequently. He first moved to France while young, receiving his education there, and was spurred to return later in life by the political situation in the French colonies during the period of the French Revolution. Slavery was an important issue in the colonies, and Léonard was white. He died in Nantes, aged 48.
His fairly conventional poetry is most interesting today for its "astonishing evidence for the experience of living through revolutionary France during the months after the declaration of the republic and the trials against Louis XVI".
O France, sanctuary of the fine arts!
I bewail the people whose fate
distances them so far from you
They will come, those Days of Darkness,
Will cover the Images of my Spring
With the Veil of Death.
The French minister Chauvelin was interested in Léonard's poetry and appointed him chargé d'affaires at Liege.
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