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Hugues, Victor

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Personal name headingHugues, Victor
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Variant(s)Hughes, Victor, 1762-1826
Hughes, Victor, d. 1826
Hugues, Jean-Baptiste Victor, 1762-1826
Hughes, Jean-Baptiste Victor, 1762-1826
LocatedGuadeloupe
Birth date1762-07
Death date1826-08-12
Place of birthMarseille (France)
Place of deathCayenne (French Guiana)
Profession or occupationPoliticians Colonial administrators
Found inRapport fait aux citoyens Victor Hugues et Lebas, agens particuliers ... 1977 (a.e.) t.p. (Victor Hugues, agen particulier du Directoire exécutif aux isles du Vent)
Le cen. Jastram, député de la Guadeloupe, au Conseil des Cinq-Cents, a ses concitoyens, [Paris, after 1795]: p. 1 (Victor Hughes, ci-devant agent particulier du gouvernement)
Martin & Walter. Révolution française (Hughes, Victor, b. in Marseille, became a baker in Saint-Domingue, responsible for supplying bread to the troops on that island; returned to France in 1793, became a member of the Convention aux Iles Sous-le-Vent in 1794, then governor of Cayenne in French Guiana; again returned to France in 1808; d. 1826)
Bousin, E. Dict. de la Révolution française (Hughes, Victor, b. 1770 in Marseille, brought up in Saint-Domingue; sent by the Convention to be a delegate to the Iles Sous-le-Vent; d. 1826)
Wikipedia, June 7, 2017 (Victor Hugues; Jean-Baptiste Victor Hugues, sometimes spelled Hughes (born in Marseille July 20, 1762 and died in Cayenne August 12, 1826), was a French politician and colonial administrator during the French Revolution, who governed Guadeloupe from 1794 to 1798, emancipating the island's slaves under orders from the National Convention)
BnF, June 7, 2017 (Hugues, Victor (1762-1826); French; male; born 1762-07-21 in Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône); died 1826-08-12 in Cayenne (Guyane); Commissioner of the Republic to the colonies; Governor of Guadeloupe (1794-1798), then of Guyana (1799-1809))
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