where was toussaint charbonneau from?
Boucherville
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 The Count of Provence and his wife fled to the Austrian Netherlands in conjunction with the royal family 's failed Flight to Varennes in June 1791 . 

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 Honoré de Balzac was born into a family which through its industry and efforts aspired to achieve respectability . His father , born Bernard @-@ François Balssa , was one of eleven children from an artisan family in Tarn ( Occitanie ) , a region in the south of France . In 1760 he set off for Paris with only a Louis coin in his pocket , intent on improving his social standing ; by 1776 he had become Secretary to the King 's Council and a Freemason ( he had also changed his name to the more noble sounding " Balzac , " his son later adding — without official recognition — the nobiliary particle : " de " ) . After the Reign of Terror ( 1793 – 94 ) , François Balzac was despatched to Tours to coordinate supplies for the Army . 

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 The loss of this opportunity caused serious discord in the Balzac household , although Honoré was not turned away entirely . Instead , in April 1819 he was allowed to live in the French capital – as English critic George Saintsbury describes it – " in a garret furnished in the most Spartan fashion , with a starvation allowance and an old woman to look after him " , while the rest of the family moved to a house twenty miles [ 32 km ] outside Paris . 

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 He joined the military in 1791 , as a private in the French Revolutionary Army ; from September 1791 to September 1793 , he was promoted from lieutenant to brigadier general . He and his commanding officer were accused of being counter @-@ revolutionaries , disgraced , and then , in 1794 , restored to rank . In 1804 , Napoleon I appointed him as governor general of the French colony in Saint @-@ Domingue and Guadeloupe , following the suppression of a widespread slave insurrection . Although he was able to reestablish some semblance of order and agricultural production , the British overwhelmed the colony in 1810 and , after a brief engagement , forced him to capitulate . 

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 In 1765 , Crèvecœur became an official resident of New York and naturalized as a British subject , adopting the name J. Hector St. John . After working as a surveyor and trader during the subsequent four years , in which he traveled extensively , he purchased farm @-@ land in Orange County , New York and married Mehitabel Tippett . During the following seven years , Crèvecœur wrote Letters from an American Farmer and corresponded with William Seton ( possibly referenced in the book as " Mr F. B. " , and to whom the French edition was dedicated ) . 
