(1772 – 1802) French general who served under Napoleon Bonaparte during the French Revolution. He was husband to Pauline Bonaparte, sister to Napoleon. In 1801, he was sent to Saint-Domingue (Haiti), where an expeditionary force under his command captured and deported Toussaint L'Ouverture, as part of an unsuccessful attempt to reassert imperial control over the Saint-Domingue government. Leclerc died of yellow fever during the failed expedition. Rare partly-printed D.S. on Armee d'Italie letterhead, 1p. sm. folio, Milan, 1795, a pass through the lines issued to a Frenchman from Toulon. A vandal has removed a 1.5 in. square section (probably a seal) from the left margin, folds and a bit soiled, else very good.