of slavery. In the only justification later offered of Saint-Georges's arrest, he was accused of disseminating 'Liberticidal' principles (Banat, 2006, p. 405). He remained incarcerated at Houdainville military prison for more than a year before he was cleared of all charges and released on 23 October 1794. Earlier that year, on 4 February 1794, the National Convention had passed a decree abolishing slavery in France and its territories but, paradoxically, perhaps the most famous and celebrated Creole of colour spent the first eight months of full liberty in revolutionary France jailed on questionable grounds. He was not reinstated after and was given only a brief command in September 1795 before being dismissed entirely in October of the same year. He returned to Paris, ill and impoverished. Though he performed, it was in a much diminished music world, a relic of the bygone ancien régime. His dear mother, Anne, passed away on 16 December 1795, nearly fifty years to the day of her son's birth and just three-and-a-half years later, on 12 June 1799, Saint-Georges died in Paris, aged 53, from a bladder ulcer.