Madame Desbassayns: Myth and Reality of an Icon of Slavery (2015)
The horrible story of a mythical slave owner!
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01/01/2015 • 1h 42m
original-title
Madame Desbassayns: Mythe et réalité d'une icône de l'esclavage
status
Released
production-companies
Kapali Studios
France Télévisions Distribution
Région Réunion
PROCIREP
Ministère des Outre-Mer
Angoa-Agicoa
CNC
COSIP
original-language
French
budget
-
revenue
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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...
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