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    France in 1848, during the Second Republic. Schœlcher was born in Paris on 22 July 1804. His father, Marc Schœlcher (1766–1832), from Fessenheim in Alsace...
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    until 1889, when it was renamed in honor of French abolitionist writer Victor Schœlcher. It is located on the west (Caribbean Sea) side of the island of Martinique...
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    It was in large part the result of the tireless 18-year campaign of Victor Schœlcher. On 3 March 1848, he had been appointed under-secretary of the navy...
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    The Statue of Victor Schœlcher (French: Statue de Victor Schœlcher) is a bronze statue sculpted in 1896 by Louis-Ernest Barrias, then dedicated the following...
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    the presence of the French abolitionist writer and parliamentarian Victor Schœlcher, Hugo declared that the Mediterranean Sea formed a natural divide between...
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    Paul Langevin and Jean Perrin; a leader of the abolitionist movement, Victor Schœlcher; early leader of Free France and colonial administrator Félix Éboué;...
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    Victor Schœlcher (F 725) was a Commandant Rivière-class frigate of French Navy. She was later transferred to National Navy of Uruguay in 1988 and given...
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    Commandant Rivière, the prototype and lead ship of the series, was Victor Schœlcher, which entered service in October 1962, with all but one of the class...
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  • candidate Nicolas Sarkozy, politician, President of the right wing party Victor Schœlcher, anti-slavery activist Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Maurice Thorez...
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    being completed by 1893. Known as the Schœlcher Library, initially it contained the 10,000 books that Victor Schœlcher had donated to the island. Today, it...
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    Germany since 2006; the Victor Schœlcher museum, honoring the 19th Century Abolitionist Victor Schœlcher whose father, Marc Schœlcher, was born in Fessenheim...
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    Peninsula, houses the Gendarmerie. There is a museum at the end of Victor Schœlcher Road on the peninsula. Gustavia has a few restaurants serving American...
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    Richard Rohmer (Alsatian extraction) Maurice de Saxe Johannes Schefferus Victor Schœlcher Robert Schuman Paul Schutzenberger Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber (Alsatian...
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  • of the Commission for the abolition of slavery, led by Victor Schœlcher. On April 27, Schœlcher obtained a decree abolishing slavery in the French Empire...
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    boundaries of the cemetery are defined as rue Froidevaux in the south, rue Victor-Schœlcher in the east, boulevard Edgar-Quinet in the north, and rue de la Gaîté...
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    under the Second Republic (1848–1852), the decree-law written by Victor Schœlcher abolished slavery in the remaining colonies. The state bought the slaves...
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    On May 22, 2020, before the murder of George Floyd, two statues of Victor Schœlcher were torn down in Martinique, an overseas department of France. Further...
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    (philosopher) Alphonse de Lamartine (writer and politician) Victor Hugo (writer and politician) Victor Schœlcher (journalist and politician) Léon Gambetta (politician)...
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    and Deputy Victor Sévère, Deputy Mayor of Fort-de-France Paul Symphor, President of the General Council 1947-1948 and Senator Victor Schœlcher (died 1893)...
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    pear tree high altar, the small town hall, the bust of the heroic Victor Schœlcher, the cannons and a monument to the dead in tribute to the deceased...
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    up to the square of the Pantheon to place roses on the graves of Victor Schœlcher, Jean Jaurès and Jean Moulin. Nicolas Sarkozy placed wreaths on the...
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  • possibility of our surrounding it with any religious associations. Victor Schœlcher, in his Life of Handel... dwells on the absurdity of the feeling which...
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    Afro-Caribbean French military officer, politician and abolitionist. Victor Schœlcher (left) and François-Auguste Perrinon (right) Perrinon was born at Saint-Pierre...
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    (2007). Toussaint Louverture. Actes Sud. p. 299. ISBN 9780375423376. Victor Schœlcher (1889). Vie de Toussaint Louverture. Éditions Karthala. pp. 333–335...
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  • Jean Rhys Léon Bertrand Justin Catayée Félix Éboué Gaston Monnerville Victor Schœlcher Christiane Taubira Léon Damas Ludovic Baal Alexis Claude-Maurice Roy...
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  • tombs of Jean Jaurès (socialism), Jean Moulin (the Resistance), and Victor Schœlcher (abolitionism). Although the PS communication team originally discouraged...
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    Scheurer-Kestner, the defender of Alfred Dreyfus; the abolitionist Victor Schœlcher and the statesman Henri-Alexandre Wallon. In 2005, there was questioning...
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    abolished in the Second Republic in 1848, under the leadership of Victor Schœlcher. In 1815, the Congress of Vienna condemned slavery. But this would...
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    is kept in the Palace of Versailles, France. Abolitionism in France Victor Schœlcher French Second Republic "L'abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies...
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