Toussaint

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Toussaint (French: All Saints) may mean:

  • Toussaint, Seine-Maritime, a commune in the arrondissement of Le Havre in the Seine-Maritime département of France

the name of:

  • François-Vincent Toussaint (1715-1772), author of Les Mœurs ("The Manners") published in 1748 and immediately prosecuted and burned by the French court of justice
  • François-Dominique Toussaint L'Ouverture (c. 1743-1803), one of the leaders of the Haitian Revolution
  • Allen Toussaint (born 1938), an American musician, songwriter and record producer and one of the most influential figures in New Orleans R&B
  • Roger Toussaint (born 1956), leader of TWU Local 100 who called on the 2005 New York City transit strike
  • Lorraine Toussaint (born 1960), a television actress best known for playing assistant medical examiner Elaine Duchamps on the television drama Crossing Jordan
  • Dany Toussaint, a candidate in the 2006 Haitian presidential election

the given name of:

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