Pierre-Victor Malouet (1740-1814). French politician, colonial administrator and planter. Elected deputy for the Third Estate of the bailiwick of Riom to the Estates General in 1789. In 1792, after the siege of the Tuileries Palace, he emigrated to England and met with Edmund Burke. On behalf of Saint-Domingue, he signed the Whitehall Accord (19 February 1793), which placed the colony (along with Guadeloupe and Martinique) under the authority of the British Empire, while ensuring the profitability of the sugar plantations by overturning the recent French declaration of the abolition of slavery. Portrait. Engraving by Pannemaker. ""History of the French Revolution"". Volume I, 1876.
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Pierre-Victor Malouet (1740-1814). French politician, colonial administrator and planter. Elected deputy for the Third Estate of the bailiwick of Riom to the Estates General in 1789. In 1792, after the siege of the Tuileries Palace, he emigrated to England and met with Edmund Burke. On behalf of Saint-Domingue, he signed the Whitehall Accord (19 February 1793), which placed the colony (along with Guadeloupe and Martinique) under the authority of the British Empire, while ensuring the profitability of the sugar plantations by overturning the recent French declaration of the abolition of slavery. Portrait. Engraving by Pannemaker. ""History of the French Revolution"". Volume I, 1876.

Date

19e siècle

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Pierre-Victor Malouet baron de Malouet politician deputy monarchist Riom history colonial administrator planter portrait engraving Pannemaker France French Estates General 18th century wig Whitehall Accord plantations sugar sugarcane Saint-Domingue colonialism French colonialism

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