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    Schœlcher (French pronunciation: [ʃœlʃɛʁ]; Martinican Creole: Chelchè) is a town and the fourth-largest commune in the French overseas department of Martinique...
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    France in 1848, during the Second Republic. Schœlcher was born in Paris on 22 July 1804. His father, Marc Schœlcher (1766–1832), from Fessenheim in Alsace...
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    The Statue of Victor Schœlcher (French: Statue de Victor Schœlcher) is a bronze statue sculpted in 1896 by Louis-Ernest Barrias, then dedicated the following...
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    Landon 1984, p. 10; Schoelcher 1857, p. 7 n.1. Schoelcher 1857, p. 3. Mainwaring 1760, pp. 4–5. Mainwaring 1760, p. 5. Schoelcher 1857, p. 4. Lang 1966...
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  • Schœlcher 1st Canton is a former canton in the Arrondissement of Fort-de-France on Martinique. It had 10,838 inhabitants (2012). It was disbanded in 2015...
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  • retreat to the Cap-Français. Forsdick & Høgsbjerg 2017, p. 126. Schœlcher 1982, p. 376. Schœlcher 1982, p. 377. Forsdick, Charles; Høgsbjerg, Christian (2017)...
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  • Culturelle Emulation is a football club of Martinique, based in the town of Schœlcher. They play in the Martinique's first division, the Martinique Championnat...
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    aux Épices (classé MH) The musée Saint-John-Perse (classé MH) The musée Schœlcher (classé MH) The Pavillon L'Herminier (classé MH) The Mémorial ACTe The...
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    Marcel (2003). The Abolitions of Slavery: From L.F. Sonthonax to Victor Schoelcher, 1793, 1794, 1848. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-5718-1432-6. Doyle, William...
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    since 2006; the Victor Schœlcher museum, honoring the 19th Century Abolitionist Victor Schœlcher whose father, Marc Schœlcher, was born in Fessenheim...
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    of the cemetery are defined as rue Froidevaux in the south, rue Victor-Schœlcher in the east, boulevard Edgar-Quinet in the north, and rue de la Gaîté...
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  • the Commission for the abolition of slavery, led by Victor Schœlcher. On April 27, Schœlcher obtained a decree abolishing slavery in the French Empire...
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    plus the campaigns of abolitionists such as Cyrille Bissette and Victor Schœlcher, persuaded the French government to end slavery in the French West Indies...
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  • conquests in Saint-Domingue. Schœlcher 1982, p. 103. Bell 2007, p. 134. Bell 2007, p. 135. Bell 2007, p. 136. Schœlcher 1982, p. 98. Bell, Madison Smartt...
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    Victor Schœlcher (F 725) was a Commandant Rivière-class frigate of French Navy. She was later transferred to National Navy of Uruguay in 1988 and given...
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  • (day 33): Fort-de-France Le Diamant Le Lamentin Le Robert Saint-Esprit Saint-Pierre (Mount Pelée) Sainte-Marie Schœlcher Fort-de-France Fort-de-France...
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    Alix Schoelcher Idrache is a Haiti-born United States Army helicopter pilot. Idrache's father Dieujuste dropped out of school at 14 years old to find work...
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    presence of the French abolitionist writer and parliamentarian Victor Schœlcher, Hugo declared that the Mediterranean Sea formed a natural divide between...
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    Loire river banks, between the Anne-de-Bretagne Bridge and the Victor-Schoelcher footbridge begins the Nantes slavery memorial. The path is covered in...
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    Langevin and Jean Perrin; a leader of the abolitionist movement, Victor Schœlcher; early leader of Free France and colonial administrator Félix Éboué; and...
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    was in large part the result of the tireless 18-year campaign of Victor Schœlcher. On 3 March 1848, he had been appointed under-secretary of the navy, and...
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  • University of the French Antilles (category Education in Schœlcher)
    Guadeloupe: Fouillole (Pointe-à-Pitre) and Saint-Claude, one in Martinique: Schœlcher (while there is also the campus of the IUFM in Fort-de-France and the...
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    Peninsula, houses the Gendarmerie. There is a museum at the end of Victor Schœlcher Road on the peninsula. Gustavia has a few restaurants serving American...
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    Navy's Ballistic Missile Submarine Force was based at Houilles. Victor Schœlcher, a French abolitionist writer in the 19th century and the main spokesman...
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    Jérémie Porsan-Clémenté (category People from Schœlcher)
    who plays as a forward for Latvian Higher League club Valmiera. Born in Schœlcher, Martinique, Porsan-Clémenté was a youth prospect at Marseille. He made...
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    Tartenson Fort Gerbault Other sites of interest include: Place de la Savane Schoelcher Library Jardin de Balata, a botanical garden Sacré-Cœur de Balata Church...
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    kept in the Palace of Versailles, France. Abolitionism in France Victor Schœlcher French Second Republic "L'abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies françaises...
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    Commandant Rivière, the prototype and lead ship of the series, was Victor Schœlcher, which entered service in October 1962, with all but one of the class...
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    ed. (2003). The Abolitions of Slavery: From L. F. Sonthonax to Victor Schoelcher, 1793, 1794, 1848. Paris: UNESCO Publishing. p. vi. ISBN 978-1-57181-432-6...
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    being completed by 1893. Known as the Schœlcher Library, initially it contained the 10,000 books that Victor Schœlcher had donated to the island. Today, it...
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