
Madame Desbassayns: Myth and Reality of an Icon of Slavery
The horrible story of a mythical slave owner!
2015 fr 102 minutes
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Plot
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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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

Teddy Lebon
Charles Desbassayns

Fabrice Payet
Joseph Desbassayns

Basile Chevalier
"Montbrun" Desbassayns

Marcelino Rivière
Julien Augustin Desbassayns

Benjamin Palomé
Chemist Wetzell

Evelyne Robert
Servant Marie-Barbe

Arielle Belus
Slave Honorine

Marie-Dolaine Guichard
Nénène Madeline

Dina Dianore
Young Nénène Madeline