2015DocumentaryHistoryDrama1h 42m
Madame Desbassayns: Myth and Reality of an Icon of Slavery
The horrible story of a mythical slave owner!
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)
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Stéphane Thomas
Madame Desbassayns
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David Erudel
Henri Paulin Panon Desbassayns
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Ophélie Galant
Young Madame Debassayns
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Kristof Langromme
Slave Neptune
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Eric Lauret
Julien Gonneau Montbrun (father)
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Muriel Benard
Marie-Thérèse L. des Sablons (mother)
Francis Convert
Abbé Macquet
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Mickaël Fontaine
Cavalier Desbassayns
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Fabrice Saubert
Housing Manager
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StatusReleased
Original Languagefr
Keywords
slaverycolonialismfrench colonialismfrench colonyla réunionmadame desbassyns
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