Jean-Baptiste Belley
Jean-Baptiste Belley (c. July 1746 – 6 August 1805) was a Saint Dominican and French politician. A native of Senegal and formerly enslaved in the colony of Saint-Domingue, in the French West Indies, he was an elected member of the Estates General, the National Convention, and the Council of Five Hundred during the French First Republic. He was also known as Mars.
Jean-Baptiste Belley | |
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Belley with a bust of the abolitionist Guillaume Raynal, portrait by Girodet, 1797 | |
| Deputy in the National Convention | |
| In office 24 September 1793 – 26 October 1795 | |
| Parliamentary group | The Plain |
| Constituency | Saint-Domingue |
| Deputy in the Council of Five Hundred | |
| In office 26 October 1795 – 26 December 1799 | |
| Parliamentary group | Thermidorians |
| Constituency | Saint-Domingue |
| Personal details | |
| Born | c. July 1746 Gorée, French Senegal, Kingdom of France |
| Died | 6 August 1805 (aged 59) Le Palais, Brittany, French Empire |
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