{"value"=>"<p>The Comte of Leaumont was a St. Domingue-born French colonist whose family owned two sugar cane plantations and refineries in the south of the island. He enrolled in the French army after the revolution served for five years as war commissar in Italy. During the 1820s, he became a proponent of financial retribution for the former French colonists in St. Domingue.</p>"}