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Étienne Polverel (1740–1795) was a French lawyer, aristocrat, and revolutionary. He was a member of the Jacobin club. In 1792, he and Léger Félicité Sonthonax were sent to Saint-Domingue to suppress the slave revolt and to implement the decree of April 4, 1792, that gave equality of rights to all free men, regardless of their ...
Étienne Polverel ou de Polverel (1738-1795) fut, avec Léger-Félicité Sonthonax, un des premiers abolitionnistes de l'esclavage en France. En tant que commissaires civils de la République à Saint-Domingue , les deux hommes prirent cette décision de façon unilatérale en août 1793 face à la révolution des esclaves de la colonie.
28. Okt. 2007 · The Trial of Polverel. Étienne Polverel was a lawyer, and was appointed a French public prosecutor in 1791. He died in April 1795, shortly after the beginning of a trial in which he and Sonthonax were accused by white colonists of treasonous activities in Saint-Domingue.
In 1792, Sonthonax, Étienne Polverel and Jean-Antoine Ailhaud were sent to the colony of Saint-Domingue (now Haïti) as part of the Revolutionary Commission. They were accompanied by Jean-Jacques d'Esparbes, who had been appointed governor of Saint-Domingue.
In 1792, the de facto government of revolutionary France sent Etienne Polverel and Léger-Félicité Sonthonax as civil commissioners to the colony for the purpose of enforcing a decree by the National Assembly enfranchising free blacks and mulattoes, but that did not yet free the colony's slaves. Under growing pressure from the revolt and ...
5. Aug. 2010 · Nous, Étienne Polverel et Léger-Félicité Sonthonax, commissaires civils de la République, délégués aux Iles françaises de l'Amérique sous le vent, pour y rétablir l'ordre et la tranquillité publique : Saint-Domingue. Commissaires nationaux-civils : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive. Au nom de la République française.
Nous, Étienne Polverel & Léger-Félicité Sonthonax, commissaires civils que nation française voyé dans pays-ci, pour mettre l'ordre et la tranquillité tour par-tout : Saint-Domingue. Commissaires nationaux-civils : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive. Proclamation.
