Toussaint LOuverture

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Tous•saint L'Ou•ver•ture

(Fr. tuˈsɛ̃ lu vɛrˈtür)
n.
(Francis Dominique Toussaint) 1743–1803, Haitian military and political leader.
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For example, William Wordsworth wrote the poem "To Touissant L'Ouverture" for the Haitian revolutionary, addressed the French revolution in The Prelude, and called for the "language of men" as an alternative to the straitjacketed, standardized English encoded in Samuel Johnson's English dictionary.
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