" Georges Lefebvre, the great contemporary historian of the French Revolution, who on occasion after occasion exhaustively examines all the available evidence and repeats that we do not know and will never know who were the real leaders of the French Revolution, nameless, obscure men, far removed from the legislators and the public orators. "

― C.L.R. James , The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution