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toussaint
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
French, literally "feast of All Saints" (Nov. 1), from tous, plural of tout "all" + saint "saint."
Wikipedia
Toussaint (French for All Saints' Day, literally All Saints) may refer to:
- Toussaint (name)
- Toussaint, Seine-Maritime, a commune in the arrondissement of Le Havre in the Seine-Maritime département of France
- Toussaint (film), a 2009 film about Haitian liberator Toussaint L'ouverture
- Toussaint (album), a 1971 album by Allen Toussaint
- Toussaint (leper chief) (born c. 1890), chief of a leper colony in South America
- Toussaint Coffee Liqueur, a coffee-flavoured liqueur named after the Haitian revolutionary hero Toussaint Louverture
Toussaint is a 1971 solo funk, jazz and soul album by Allen Toussaint, his second solo album and his first since the 1950s.
Toussaint was the chief of a leper colony in South America ( 1890 – unknown, in Chacachacare), known for his appearance in the book Papillon. The book recounted the escapes of Henri Charrière from the French penal colony of Devil's Island in French Guiana. In 1934, Charriere, with his fellow prisoners Clusiot and Maturette, escaped from the penal colony. During their escape, they went to Toussaint's leper colony to obtain money and a boat.
Toussaint was a Frenchman, and is believed to have himself served time at Devil's Island. He contracted leprosy, most likely while in the penal colony. Toussaint was sent to a leper colony on Chacachacare, and stayed in the colony for the rest of his life.
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Toussaint is both a French surname and a masculine French given name. Notable people with the name include:
Surname:
- Allen Toussaint (1938–2015), American musician, songwriter and record producer and one of the most influential figures in New Orleans R&B
- André Toussaint, Haitian singer and guitarist
- Auguste Toussaint (1911–1990s), Mauritian archivist and historian
- Beth Toussaint (born 1962), American actress, best known for her television performances
- Dany Toussaint, candidate in the 2006 Haitian presidential election
- Fitzgerald Toussaint, American football player
- Godfried Toussaint, Belgian, British, and Canadian professor of computer science specializing in computational geometry and computational music
- Eugenio Toussaint (1954–2011), Mexican composer
- 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
- Franz Joseph Toussaint Minister of Finance to Maria Theresa Austrian Empress
- Jean Toussaint (born 1960), American-British jazz saxophonist
- Jean Joseph Henri Toussaint (1847–1890), French veterinarian and bacteriologist
- Jean-Philippe Toussaint (born 1957), Belgian writer
- Lorraine Toussaint (born 1960), television actress best known for playing assistant medical examiner Elaine Duchamps on the television drama Crossing Jordan
- Mauricio Toussaint (born 1960), contemporary Mexican artist, living between Mexico and Arizona in the USA where he largely lives and works
- Michel'le Toussaint, an American R&B singer-songwriter
- Nina Toussaint-White (born 1985), British actress
- Olivier Toussaint, French composer, pop singer, orchestra arranger, company manager, and record producer active since 1968
- Ven. Pierre Toussaint, Haitian-American philanthropist
- Roger Toussaint (born 1956), former President of TWU Local 100 who called on the 2005 New York City transit strike
- Rudolf Toussaint, the German Army commander in Prague at the end of World War II, imprisoned for life for war crimes
- Touki Toussaint, American baseball player
Given name:
- Toussaint Charbonneau (1767–1843), was a French-Canadian explorer and trader, and a member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, best known as the husband of Sacagawea
- Toussaint de Charpentier (1779–1847), German geologist and entomologist
- Toussaint Dallam (born 1659), French organ-builder.
- Toussaint Dubreuil (c. 1560–1602), French painter associated with the second School of Fontainebleau
- Toussaint-Bernard Émeric-David (1755–1839), French archaeologist and writer on art
- Toussaint-Antoine-Rodolphe Laflamme (1827–1893), a French-Canadian lawyer, professor of law and politician
- Toussaint Louverture (1743–1803), black slave who organized the expulsion of French, British, and Spanish armies that enforced slavery in Haiti and nearby Santo Domingo
- Toussaint Natama (born 1982), Burkinabé football player
Category:French-language surnames
Usage examples of "toussaint".
Thus, in December, a representative from Toussaint, Joseph Bunel, dined with Adams, marking the first time a man of African descent was the dinner guest of an American President.
It was Susan, his half sister, running slightly ahead of Philomena Toussaint and the Queen Mother, who were strolling arm-in-arm, enjoying the spring sunshine.
The Queen looked up and saw Diana driving Fitzroy Toussaint, who was sitting in the front passenger seat waving his arms to the music.
Diana was stumbling now and Fitzroy Toussaint, dazzling in his dark suit, took her arm solicitously.
Philomena Toussaint began speaking in tongues and Mr Pike, carried away by the emotional atmosphere, confided that his dream for Castle Prison was to see flushing lavatories installed in every cell.
Meanwhile, Philomena Toussaint sat next door in her kitchen, listening to the sounds of jollity next door.
Desperate for food for his starving troops, Toussaint wanted the American embargo lifted from the former French colony.
Vicente Rossi, el tamaño mitológico de Abraham Lincoln, los quinientos mil muertos de la Guerra de Secesión, los tres mil trescientos millones gastados en pensiones militares, la estatua del imaginario Falucho, la admisión del verbo linchar en la décimotercera edición del Diccionario de la Academia, el impetuoso film Aleluya, la fornida carga a la bayoneta llevada por Soler al frente de sus Pardos y Morenos en el Cerrito, la gracia de la señorita de Tal, el moreno que asesinó Martín Fierro, la deplorable rumba El Manisero, el napoleonismo arrestado y encalabozado de Toussaint Louverture, la cruz y la serpiente en Haití, la sangre de las cabras degolladas por el machete del papaloi, la habanera madre del tango, el candombe.
Toussaint picked at his acoustic guitar, playing a complicated version of 'When the Levee Breaks.
Quite apart from the fact that Dean here is an atheist, and Toussaint is a Black Muslim, and Che-u is a Buddhist, and John is a Baptist, and I myself used to be a Mormon but quit on account of the fact that they gave up polygamy and they didn't give Green Stamps.
Toussaint was playing the theme from All in the Family on his guitar, and Mean Dean was reading a Death Rattle comic.
He quoted Fanon, Farrakhan, Salid, Wright, Cleaver, King, Garvey, he talked about the Rastas and the Muslims and the BLA and the American Mau Mau, he talked about Toussaint L'Ouverture and Chaka Zulu and Bobby Seale and Nat Turner.
He perceived the possibility of not returning to the Rue Plumet, and he could neither leave Toussaint behind nor confide his secret to her.
He saw that possibly he should not return to the Rue Plumet, and he could neither leave Toussaint behind, nor tell her his secret.