Christophe Vuillaumes efterslægt - Christensen, Erichsen ...

ekræftet. Hans bagvaskelse bør blankt afvises. Og Villaume-Ducoudrays foregivne øjenvidneberetninger om
episoder på Haiti, Margarita, og Carúpano bør fortolkes som et produkt af hans underbevidsthed, hans had til
alt liberalt, alt, som ikke er europæisk og calvinistisk, til alt, som er virkelig stort;
Det lader til at have været Georges Jeannnet (Nicolas Georges Jeannet-Oudin, 1762-1828), nevø af Danton,
der stod bag ekspeditionen mod Puerto Rico:
Fra "Bonapartists in the Borderlands. French exiles and refugees on the Gulf Coast, 1815-1835" af
Rafe Blaufarb, University of Alabama Press, 2005:
Another Champ d'Asile survivor who was a revolutionary activist in the 1820s was Georges Jeannet. Given
his background not merely as a colonial administrator for the French Republic but also as the official charged
with effecting slave emancipation in Guyana, it is not surprising to find that Jeannet's hopes centered on the
possibility of fomenting slave revolt in the Carribean.
In 1821 and early 1822 he reportedly set in motion a plot to spark a rising of mulattoes and blacks against the
white inhabitants of Guadeloupe. The base of the operation was on the nearby island of Saint Barthelemy, in
the mercantile house of the brothers Benjamin and Titus Bigard, rich free men of colour who had been trusted
lieutenants of the French Revolutionary commissar Victor Hugues during the 1790s. Backed by their money
and influence, a fleet of corsairs was to disembark eight hundred armed men at Guadeloupe, burn plantations,
murder whites, and try to touch off a race war that would destroy the colonial regime. Jeannet was present on
the island as late as March 1822, making connections with potential allies on the island, when he was expelled
by the governor-general.
He returned to New York City via Saint Barthelemy and promptly organized a new expedition, this one
against Puerto Rico. In mid-August 1822, accompanied by his son Joseph, two nephews, and two former
Napoleonic officers (General Ducoudray-Holstein and Colonel Durutte), Jeannet set sail at the head of a force
composed of fifty-two men crammed aboard two small ships.
It is unclear how the expedition unfolded, although it certainly did not pose a serious threat to Puerto Rico.
Jeannet himself died in 1828 in impoverished circumstances in his hometown, while his son became a small
businessman in Peru.
Fra Les pages de Rédris om Nicolas Georges Jeannet-Oudin (1762-1828):
Il fut gouverneur de la Guyane:
* 14 avril 1793 - novembre 1794
* D'avril 1796 - novembre 1798 (agent particulier du Directoir)
D'abord Maire d'Arcis sur Aube, puis Commissaire du conseil exécutif provisoire à Thionville, Commissaire
de la Convention, Agent du Directoire il est nommé gouverneur de Guyane. Neveu de Danton, c'est à lui qu'il
doit ce poste.
Il arrive en Guyane le 11 avril 1793.
Il proclama en Guyane la première abolition de l'esclavage à la réception du décret du 16 pluviôse, le 13 juin
1794
Il fit procéder aux élections locales par les nouveaux citoyens en septembre. Mais il s'opposa à la volonté des
nouveaux libres de créer une petite exploitation agricole et les obligea à demeurer sur les habitations où ils
étaient esclaves.
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