Une famille transatlantique : les Fleuriau by Jacques de Cauna

“…The character of Aimé-Benjamin Fleuriau, plantation owner on the island of Saint-Domingue, born of a protestant family of La Rochelle, France, has become a true legend in his native town since a Ph.D. dissertation was devoted to him in 1982.It is, however, the issue of racial mixing [métissage], through one of the Domingan sons of his « housekeeper » [ménagère], which has recently inspired a novel rewarded with the Prix Renaudot, and then his whole « colored » family which has just been the object of a new Ph.D. at the university of Michigan. …”
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