 The Leger family owned two plantations, one of coffee (La Joséphine) and the other of sugar (Bois-Debout).In 1897, Hégésippe Légitimus, the first native Guadeloupan elected president of the Guadeloupe General Council, took office with a vindictive agenda towards colonists.The Leger family returned to metropolitan France in 1899 and settled in Pau.