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Madame Desbassayns: Myth and Reality of an Icon of Slavery

0% | Jan 01, 2015 | Documentary, History, Drama

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...

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William Cally
Director
William Cally
Writer

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Jacques Deshayes
Narrator (voice)
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Stéphane Thomas
Madame Desbassayns
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David Erudel
Henri Paulin Panon Desbassayns
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Ophélie Galant
Young Madame Debassayns
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Kristof Langromme
Slave Neptune

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