Madame Desbassayns: Myth and Reality of an Icon of Slavery

Madame Desbassayns: Myth and Reality of an Icon of Slavery

1h 42m 0.0/10

Overview

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

Camille Bessiere-Mithra

Top Billed Cast

David Erudel

Henri Paulin Panon Desbassayns

Kristof Langromme

Slave Neptune

Stéphane Thomas

Madame Desbassayns

Jacques Deshayes

Narrator (voice)

Ophélie Galant

Young Madame Debassayns

Eric Lauret

Julien Gonneau Montbrun (father)

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