Philippe-Rose Roume de Saint-Laurent (also Roume) arrives in Saint-Domingue on November 29, 1791 as a French Commissioner, with some experience.

Roume arrives with fellow Commissioners Mirbeck and Saint-Léger.

He replaces Gabriel Hédouville, who had done his best to work against—and utlimately to defeat—Toussaint. (Williams)

A native of Grenada, Roume had been a commissioner in Tobago and a key figure in the development of Trinidad. (Beard and Quesnels).

When he arrives in Saint-Domingue, Roume "announced to the Assembly (in Le Cap) that [the Commissioners] were expecting the imminent arrival of a large body of trained troops."

He knows full well this isn't true, or isn't likely. (Parkinson, p. 60)

Roume returns to Saint-Domingue in 1796, along with Léger Félicité Sonthonax and Julien Raimond. (Parkinson, p. 103)

Korngold writes about an occasion when Toussaint witnessed Roume being locked in a chicken shack by a mob; "[Toussaint was] ...apparently ignorant of the indignity inflicted upon the representative of the French Republic. His ignorance lasted nine days then he allowed himself to be informed and professed to be greatly shocked." (Korngold p. 189)

Roume is expelled from Saint-Domingue by Toussaint Louverture at the end of 1800.