To find out more about Louis Guizot, read the article by Roger Little « A black mayor during the Revolution »published in the magazine The black traces of history in the West, L'Harmattan, 2005.
Summary - Louis Guizot, the son of a French nobleman and a black slave, was the first black mayor of a French commune, elected in 1790. His fight for tolerance cost him his life at the time of the Revolution.