"Would you like some hot chocolate, madam? I hear you have quite a sweet tooth." Davout spoke after the office door closed.
"No, thank you." Georgiana smiled.
"Then would you like something else? Tea? Coffee?"
"I did not come here for a drink, General." Georgiana watched Davout sit down across from her. "Actually..."
"You came because of Toussaint Louverture." Davout interrupted softly, then sighed. "You have caused me no small amount of trouble, Georgiana."
"Where is he now?" she asked frankly.
Davout did not answer at once.
"I have been to Egypt as well," Davout said. "In 1800, after the Coup of 18 Brumaire, we sailed back to France, but British generals detained us for a month. If Junot's wounds had received proper treatment then, they would not have become what they are now."
"Are you accusing the British of abusing prisoners?" Georgiana asked.
"Many people have tried to communicate with Toussaint Louverture, but he told us many things we had never heard of in Europe." Davout considered his words for a moment. "Do you know how France's equality, liberty, and fraternity spread over there?"
"You can speak plainly, General."
"The first people to spread the ideas of freedom and equality in Saint-Domingue were the plantation owners themselves. Toussaint Louverture used to be a coachman. He often overheard the conversations of the masters in his carriage and learned much from them. Of course, the equality they spoke of was equality between plantation owners and France's first estate of nobility. The freedom they spoke of was the freedom to deprive slaves of their freedom. In truth, they already had more than enough freedom. Even we have no right to throw a living person into boiling water and scald them to death. These plantation owners were the first to organize and fight