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

2015 · 1h 42m · Released

DramaDocumentaryHistory

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...

Director

William Cally

Cast

J

Jacques Deshayes

Narrator (voice)

S

Stéphane Thomas

Madame Desbassayns

D

David Erudel

Henri Paulin Panon Desbassayns

O

Ophélie Galant

Young Madame Debassayns

K

Kristof Langromme

Slave Neptune

E

Eric Lauret

Julien Gonneau Montbrun (father)

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