Name Claude Ribbe Role Writer | Books Napoleon's Crimes | |
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Claude ribbe d masque l imposture du cran hondelatte dimanche 6 janvier 2013 tnt num ro 23
Claude Ribbe (born 13 October 1954) is a French writer, activist and filmmaker of Caribbean origin.
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- Claude ribbe d masque l imposture du cran hondelatte dimanche 6 janvier 2013 tnt num ro 23
- Pourquoi tant de hros oublis dans lhistoire de France
- Early life and education
- Career
- Books
- Films
- References
Pourquoi tant de héros oubliés dans l'histoire de France
Early life and education
Ribbe was born in Paris and is alumnus of the Ecole normale superieure.
Career
Ribbe has specialised in the history of colonialism in the Caribbean. He has also been active in promoting civil rights in France for people of ethnic African and Caribbean origin.
Through his books and films, he has supported the recognition of figures such as Eugene Bullard (Eugene Jacques Bullard), Chevalier de Saint-George, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, in 1793 the first man of Afro-Antilles origin to be promoted to general in the French Army.
In his book Le Crime de Napoleon (2005), Ribbe accused Napoleon of having used sulphur dioxide gas for the mass execution of more than 100,000 rebellious black slaves when trying to put down slave rebellions in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) and Guadeloupe. He said this was a model for Hitler's holocaust nearly 140 years later.
In Ribbe's words, Napoleon, then First Consul, was the man who, for the first time in history, 'asked himself rationally the question how to eliminate, in as short a time as possible, and with a minimum of cost and personnel, a maximum of people described as scientifically inferior'.