where was toussaint l'ouverture from?
Haiti
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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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 Les Chouans is considered Balzac 's first real success as a writer – a milestone for which he was prepared , evidenced by his willingness to sign his own name . Saintsbury proclaims that publishing Les Chouans was how he " first emerged from the purgatory of anonymous hack @-@ writing . " Still , revenues from the book were not sufficient to cover Balzac 's modest living expenses . 

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 The French Revolution was integral to the expansion of French cuisine , because it effectively abolished guilds . This meant any one chef could now produce and sell any culinary item he wished . Marie @-@ Antoine Carême was born in 1784 , five years before the onset of the Revolution . He spent his younger years working at a pâtisserie until being discovered by Charles Maurice de Talleyrand @-@ Périgord , who would later cook for the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte . Prior to his employment with Talleyrand , Carême had become known for his pièces montées , which were extravagant constructions of pastry and sugar architecture . 

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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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 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 . 
