Madame Desbassayns: Myth and Reality of an Icon of Slavery
Madame Desbassayns: Myth and Reality of an Icon of Slavery

Madame Desbassayns: Myth and Reality of an Icon of Slavery

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1 hr 42 min

2015-01-01

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The life of Mrs. Desbassayns is exceptional in more than one way in the history of slavery on the island of Réunion. Married at the age of 15 to the forty-year-old Henri-Paulin Panon Desbassayns, this young Creole woman named Hombeline Gonneau immediately embarked on an extraordinary journey. She found herself, in fact, at the head of the most powerful landowning family...

Documentary

History

Drama

Trailers

Characters

Jacques Deshayes

Jacques Deshayes

Narrator (voice)

Stéphane Thomas

Stéphane Thomas

Madame Desbassayns

David Erudel

David Erudel

Henri Paulin Panon Desbassayns

Ophélie Galant

Ophélie Galant

Young Madame Debassayns

Kristof Langromme

Kristof Langromme

Slave Neptune

Eric Lauret

Eric Lauret

Julien Gonneau Montbrun (father)

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