
"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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Narrator (voice)
Madame Desbassayns
Henri Paulin Panon Desbassayns
Young Madame Debassayns
Slave Neptune
Julien Gonneau Montbrun (father)
Marie-Thérèse L. des Sablons (mother)
Abbé Macquet
Cavalier Desbassayns
Housing Manager
Charles Desbassayns
Joseph Desbassayns
"Montbrun" Desbassayns
Julien Augustin Desbassayns
Chemist Wetzell
Servant Marie-Barbe
Slave Honorine
Nénène Madeline
Young Nénène Madeline