Madame Desbassayns: Myth and Reality of an Icon of Slavery
2015-01-01 | 102 min
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...
Genres
Documentary History Drama
Cast
Jacques Deshayes
Stéphane Thomas
David Erudel
Ophélie Galant
Kristof Langromme
Eric Lauret
Muriel Benard
Francis Convert
