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Jean-Baptiste Belley | |
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 Belley with a bust of the abolitionist Guillaume Raynal, portrait by Girodet, 1797 | |
| Deputy in the National Convention | |
| In office 24 September 1793 – 26 October 1795 | |
| Parliamentary group | The Plain |
| Constituency | Saint-Domingue |
| Deputy in the Council of Five Hundred | |
| In office 26 October 1795 – 26 December 1799 | |
| Parliamentary group | Thermidorians[1] |
| Constituency | Saint-Domingue |
| Personal details | |
| Born | c. July 1746 Gorée, French Senegal, Kingdom of France |
| Died | 6 August 1805 (aged 59) Le Palais, Brittany, French Empire |
Jean-Baptiste Belley (c. July 1746 – 6 August 1805) was a Saint Dominican and French politician. A native of Senegal and formerly enslaved in the colony of Saint-Domingue, in the French West Indies, he was an elected member of the Estates General, the National Convention, and the Council of Five Hundred during the French First Republic.[2] He was also known as Mars.[3]
- ^ "Jean-Baptiste Belley". National Assembly. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
- ^ Carl A. Brasseaux, Glenn R. Conrad (1992). The Road to Louisiana: The Saint-Domingue Refugees, 1792-1809. New Orleans: Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana. p. 12.
- ^ Hall, Catherine, [1]Archived 11 December 2006 at the Wayback Machine Review of The Birth of the Modern World 1780–1914: Global Connections and Comparisons, by C. A. Bayly online at history.ac.uk, accessed 7 August 2008
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