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Madame Desbassayns: Myth and Reality of an Icon of Slavery

The horrible story of a mythical slave owner!

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1h 42m

2015

“The horrible story of a mythical slave owner!”

Synopsis

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

DocumentaryHistoryDrama

slaverycolonialismfrench colonialismfrench colonyla réunionmadame desbassyns

Cast & Crew

Jacques Deshayes

as Narrator (voice)

Stéphane Thomas

as Madame Desbassayns

David Erudel

as Henri Paulin Panon Desbassayns

Ophélie Galant

as Young Madame Debassayns

Kristof Langromme

as Slave Neptune

Eric Lauret

as Julien Gonneau Montbrun (father)

Muriel Benard

as Marie-Thérèse L. des Sablons (mother)

Francis Convert

as Abbé Macquet

Mickaël Fontaine

as Cavalier Desbassayns

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