{"id":35592,"date":"2025-06-07T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T05:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/?p=35592"},"modified":"2025-05-10T10:52:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T06:52:24","slug":"something-new-at-the-musee-de-lesclavage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/something-new-at-the-musee-de-lesclavage\/","title":{"rendered":"Something new at the Mus\u00e9e de l’esclavage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Postponed due to the funeral of Pope Francis, President Macron’s planned visit nevertheless benefited Mauritius’ Mus\u00e9e Intercontinental de l’Esclavage (ISM). <\/b><\/span>This <\/b>postponed <\/b><\/span>made it possible to speed up certain refurbishments: the arrival of the model of the <\/b>Saturn<\/i><\/b>the <\/b><\/span>the installation of a full-scale model wedge <\/b>and, <\/b><\/span>soon, the opening to the public of the room featuring the three busts created by the scientist Eug\u00e8ne Huet de Froberville. <\/b>Dominique Bellier<\/em><\/p>\n

Despite the cancellation of the French President’s visit, Thani Mohammed Soilihi, Minister Delegate for the French-speaking world, came as planned, along with representatives from the sister island, to inaugurate the public exhibition of three plaster busts made in 1846 by ethnographer Eug\u00e8ne Huet de Froberville,<\/span> who cast<\/span> them from former slaves from the La Baraque <\/span>plantation in return for payment. The French delegation also included representatives from the sister<\/span> island, including regional president Huguette Bello. The visit <\/span>led to the signing of a memorandum of understanding on cooperation between the Mus\u00e9e de Vill\u00e8le, the Mus\u00e9e Historique de l’Habitation et de l’esclavage in La R\u00e9union, and the ISM. <\/p>\n

The big absentee was independent French researcher Klara Boyer-Rossol, whose trip was cancelled at the same time as the President’s. She was the driving force behind the rapprochement between Mauritius and France over the archives and artifacts of Eug\u00e8ne Huet Froberville. She was the driving force behind the rapprochement between Mauritius and France concerning the archives and artifacts of Eug\u00e8ne Huet de Froberville. This specialist in the Makua populations of the Indian Ocean and southern Africa patiently convinced Froberville’s heirs to <\/span>make public and preserve these extremely precious archives, the richness of which she knows, by entrusting them to the Archives nationales d’Outre-mer (ANOM) in Aix-en-Provence and by bringing the Mauritian museum closer to the Ch\u00e2teau de Blois, whose reserves contain some fifty other original busts… <\/p>\n

The three busts, which will soon be on view at specific times, are a foretaste of what will be on view in 2026 , as a <\/span>5-year renewable deposit\/loan agreement has been negotiated between the two countries for all the busts. The room that will house over fifty of these faces, each more moving than the last, has been identified. It will be restored, insulated and fitted with temperature and humidity control equipment, to ensure that these fragile witnesses to the past do not deteriorate. These artifacts, dedicated to the study of populations by a 19th<\/span>e<\/sup><\/span> century scholar to the study of populations are now, in the 21<\/span>e<\/sup><\/span> century memorial objects for the peoples of the Indian Ocean. They embody a fundamental aspect of the quadrangular trade that linked ancient worlds to the cursed <\/span>times of slavery… <\/p>\n

One of the directors of the ISM, Father Alain Romaine, examined one aspect of this first form of globalization , <\/span>by exploring the history of the ship. Le Saturne<\/i><\/span>. We owe him the fitting-out of the rooms devoted to the slave trade, which now house a 1:15<\/span> scale model of this three-masted vessel.<\/span> e<\/sup><\/span>and the reconstruction of the holds, where captives were “stored” during long, nightmarish crossings. More on this later. <\/span>.. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Postponed due to the funeral of Pope Francis, President Macron’s planned visit nevertheless benefited Mauritius’ Mus\u00e9e Intercontinental de l’Esclavage (ISM). This postponed made it possible to speed up certain refurbishments: the arrival of the model of the Saturnthe the installation of a full-scale model wedge and, soon, the opening to the public of the room […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":35491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1774],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-35592","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-heritage"},"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}