[kubanczyk]

About egalitarian Napoleon:

> In 1801, Louverture issued a constitution for Saint-Domingue [now Haiti] that decreed he would be governor-for-life and called for black autonomy and a sovereign black state. In response, Napoleon Bonaparte dispatched a large expeditionary force of French soldiers and warships to the island, led by Bonaparte's brother-in-law Charles Leclerc, to restore French rule. They were under secret instructions to restore slavery, at least in the formerly Spanish-held part of the island.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_Revolution#Napoleon_in...

As for French Guiana, it was actually an extreme penal colony at that time (also, it was briefly held by Portugal). It became a department in 1946.