Neil: Thanks for your very interesting message on St Vincent and nutmegs. Victor Hugues is a name well known in Grenada as the French revolutionary leader behind the Fedon rebellion of 1795. He went to Cayenne as governor after leaving Guadeloupe in 1799 where he served until 1809 - he capitulated to the English in that year, so that may be the date mentioned in your piece about St Vincent nutmegs. He went back to France where he was court-martialed for treason in 1814, but was acquitted. He went back to Cayenne in 1817, then died in France around 1826. He was pretty cruel when he carried around his guillotine in Guadeloupe, seeing off hundreds, but seems to have been kinder in Cayenne, perhaps mellowing with age. David