Schoelcher biography
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Schœlcher
This article is about the town in Martinique. For the abolitionist it was named after, see Victor Schœlcher.
Commune in Martinique, France
Schœlcher (French pronunciation:[ʃœlʃɛʁ]; Martinican Creole: Chelchè) is a town and the fourth-largest commune in the French overseas department of Martinique. The town was named Case-Navire until 1889, when it was renamed in honor of French abolitionist writer Victor Schœlcher.[3]
Geography
[edit]It is located on the west (Caribbean Sea) side of the island of Martinique, and is part of the metropolitan area of Fort-de-France, the largest metropolitan area in Martinique.
Population
[edit]| Year | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1967 | 13,241 | — |
| 1974 | 14,749 | +1.55% |
| 1982 | 18,094 | +2.59% |
| 1990 | 19,825 | +1.15% |
| 1999 | 20,845 | +0.56% |
| 2007 | 21,510 | +0.39% |
| 2012 | 20,103 | −1.34% |
| 2017 | 19,997 | −0.11% |
| Source: INSEE[4] | ||
Notable people
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Victor Schoelcher
1804 – 1893 • France
Human rights • Anti-slavery campaigner • Republican
This revolutionary republican campaigner against slavery was born in Paris in what was then the 5th arrondisement and is now in the 10th, at 60 Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis.
His father was a wealthy owner of a porcelain factory who was well able to afford to send his son to the Lycée Condorcet that opened in 1803 in what is now 8 Rue du Havre, the monastery built just before the Revolution in the 1780s. When Schoelcher was there it changed its name. It had been called the Lycée impérial Bonaparte from 1805 to 1815 and then became the Collège royal de Bourbon from 1815 until February 1848.
As a wealthy young man Schoelcher entered the circles where got to know George Sand, Hector Berlioz and Franz Liszt. In 1828 his father sent him off to represent the business in Mexico and the United States and then to Cuba in 1829 where he found slavery absolutely abhorrent.
Returning to France in 1830 Schoelcher became a journalist and art critic and well as a lifelong campaigner against slavery. In 1832 he sold the business he inherited from his father to enable him to concentrate on journalism and politics.
In 1833 his first book, On the slavery of Black people and Colonial Law
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