The result would be to reduce contraband and keep English trade away from the French colonies. The project was abandoned in November 1765 in Saint Martin, but resumed two years later in Saint Lucia and Saint Domingue. After leaving Gaudeloupe, Nolivos was governor of Saint Domingue from September 1769 to January 1772. Nolivos had great wealth, and owned various coffee and sugar plantations in Saint-Domingue, as well as a townhouse on the rue de la Grange Batelière, Paris. In 1771 in Port-au-Prince he married Suzanne Marcombe, widow of Ambroise Roux, of a family originally from Angers. His wife was born in 1714. The marriage contract was signed on 6 March 1771. Nolivos' property listed in the contract included large sums of money, 46 domestic slaves, 26 horses, furniture and silverware. His wife also bought money, a coffee plantation, 40 negro slaves and other property. Before the wedding on 19 March 1771 the men were entertained in the governor's palace, and the women in the intendance. The guests of both sexes joined in the church at one o'clock. Nolivos was recalled by the king on 14 September 1771. He and his wife left Saint-Domingue at the end of that year on the ship "Thomas", and disembarked in Nantes in April 1772. Three of the servants who accompanied them were slaves, Jean Simon, cook, Jean Louis, valet and Charlotte, mulatto. A legal document of 28 May 1773 shows that Nolivos and his wife were living in Paris on the rue Grange Batelière. The Count of Nolivos received a pension of 6,000 livres in 1775. He retired to his family lands in Béarn after the death of his wife on 21 August 1782 in Paris. During the French Revolution, on 7 November 1793 Nolivos, aged 79 and widowed without children, was placed on the list of suspects as an aristocrat, as was his nephew the Marquis de Nolivos, aged 41 and married with four children. He was released on 24 October 1794. The date of his death is unknown.