REF: 16093
Pomme the American intervenes for a planter deported from Cayenne Island
André Pomme (the American) (Arles, 1756/1842)Initially a clergyman, he settled in Guyana where he founded a farm with slaves; he was elected deputy of the colony to the Convention and then to the Council of Five Hundred.
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Pomme the American, deputy for Cayenne, intervened to ensure that François Lhomond, owner of a plantation in French Guiana, who was "deported from this colony," could benefit from the aid granted by the Republic.
"I, the undersigned member of the Council of Five Hundred, deputy for the colony of Cayenne and French Guiana, attest that citizen Lhomond, resident and landowner of the colony of Cayenne, was deported from this colony to France, and that he was unable, due to the events of the Revolution in these… Read more
"I, the undersigned member of the Council of Five Hundred, deputy for the colony of Cayenne and French Guiana, attest that citizen Lhomond, resident and landowner of the colony of Cayenne, was deported from this colony to France, and that he was unable, due to the events of the Revolution in these… Read more
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