Madame Desbassayns: Myth and Reality of an Icon of Slavery
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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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Jacques Deshayes
Narrator (voice)
Stéphane Thomas
Madame Desbassayns
David Erudel
Henri Paulin Panon Desbassayns
Ophélie Galant
Young Madame Debassayns
Kristof Langromme
Slave Neptune
Eric Lauret
Julien Gonneau Montbrun (father)
Muriel Benard
Marie-Thérèse L. des Sablons (mother)
Francis Convert
Abbé Macquet
Mickaël Fontaine
Cavalier Desbassayns
Fabrice Saubert
Housing Manager
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