^Cahiers de l'Académie d'Histoire (1-11), Paris, 1970, p. 51. Her full name is also sometimes given as Marie-Rose-Thimoléone (Caroline) Chevalier de Lavit.
^She was the daughter of the "free mulatto" Jean-Joseph Lavit, the son of a French nobleman of the colony (Pierre Bardin, Joseph Sieur de Saint-Georges : Le Chevalier Noir, Paris, Guénégaud, 2006, p. 193, ISBN978-2850231261).