Michel-Victor Leroy in Lisieux, Calvados (14)

Michel-Victor Leroy (1754-1842) was born in Lisieux, where he studied, and left for Haiti with his brother in 1775 or 1778. They had a very successful plantation with its own manufacture of rum for several years, until the slave revolt came and the plantation was violently lost, along with Michel-Victor's brother. The survivor left for New England, and in 1800 he met botanist François-André Michaux. Botany and horticulture now became Leroy's central interests, although he returned to Lisieux, where he died on 33 rue Petite Couture. The roundabout was inaugurated in 2013.