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Étienne Polverel (Bearne, 1740 - París, 1795) fue un abogado en Bayona que ingresó a la masonería en 1771 en la logia L’Amitié de Burdeos.
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 de oct. de 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.
On 17 September 1792, the commissars Léger-Félicité Sonthonax, Étienne Polverel and Jean-Antoine Ailhaud landed in Cap-Français with 6,000 men from the French Republican army.
Étienne Polverel (1740-1795) fue un abogado, aristócrata y revolucionario francés. [1] Era miembro del club jacobino . En 1792, él y Léger Félicité Sonthonax fueron enviados a Saint-Domingue para reprimir la revuelta de esclavos y aplicar el decreto del 4 de abril de 1792 que otorgaba igualdad de derechos a todos los hombres libres ...
When their desperate situation drove the two “Brissotin” civil commissioners Léger-Félicité Sonthonax and Étienne Polverel to proclaim the emancipation of the slaves in the summer of 1793, they radically altered the situation on both sides of the Atlantic.
