Léon Robert Thébaud, a lawyer and ambassador, was born in Gonaïves, Haïti, on 5 June 1894 and died in Paris, France.
After four years there, Thébaud was transferred in 1941 to Rome, where he represented Haiti as an envoy extraordinary to the Vatican.
He returned to Rome in 1947, and in 1954 once again became Haiti’s minister plenipotentiary in France.1 Léon Robert Thébaud attended the Évian Conference from 6 to 13 July 1938 in Évian-les-Bains, France, to discuss the issue of Jewish refugees escaping Nazi persecution.
He attended representing the island nation of Haiti as the commercial attaché in Paris, with the rank of minister.
As Haitian ambassador to France, Léon Thébaud put up a stone cross memorial for Toussaint Louverture on 29 August 1954 at Fort-de-Joux.