How did the French capture Toussaint Louverture in 1802?

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In May 1802, after months of conflict against the French expeditionary force led by Gen. Charles Leclerc, Toussaint Louverture agreed to lay down his arms in exchange for assurances that slavery would not be restored in Saint-Domingue.123

Despite this agreement, the French betrayed him shortly thereafter. In June 1802, Louverture was invited to a parley by a French general, Jean-Baptiste Brunet, under false pretenses. Acting under orders from Napoleon Bonaparte, who suspected Louverture of plotting an uprising, the French seized him at Brunet’s home. Following his arrest, he was deported to France and imprisoned in the remote Fort-de-Joux, where he died in April 1803.124