Queye TV Madame Desbassayns: Myth and Reality of an Icon of Slavery
Documentary
History
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Madame Desbassayns: Myth and Reality of an Icon of Slavery
Madame Desbassayns: Mythe et réalité d'une icône de l'esclavage
2015
1:42
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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...

Cast

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

Crew

William Cally

Director

William Cally

Writer

Sudel Fuma

Writer

Romain Cally

Production Manager

Johann Govindin

Production Assistant

Sandrine Dime

Production Director

Axel Mainfroi

Director of Photography

Camille Bessiere-Mithra

Assistant Director

Jérôme Clausse

Drone Operator

Sevan Blain

Drone Operator

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