Release Date
2015-01-01
Status
Released
Original Title
Madame Desbassayns: Mythe et réalité d'une icône de l'esclavage
Runtime
1h 42m
Original Language
FR
Production Countries
Reunion, France
Production Companies
Kapali Studios, France Télévisions Distribution, Région Réunion, PROCIREP, Ministère des Outre-Mer, Angoa-Agicoa
Overview
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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