{"id":3184,"date":"2020-09-24T08:35:15","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T06:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/?p=3184"},"modified":"2020-09-24T08:35:15","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T06:35:15","slug":"tribute-to-historian-claude-wanquet-1937-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/tribute-to-historian-claude-wanquet-1937-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribute to historian Claude Wanquet (1937-2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Departmental Council would like to celebrate the memory of eminent historian Claude Wanquet, who passed away recently.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/claude-wanquet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2607\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/claude-wanquet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/claude-wanquet.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/claude-wanquet-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>A reputed specialist of the revolutionary and imperial period, he began his career as a writer with the publication of his thesis \u2018History of a Revolution: Reunion Island (1789-1803)\u2019. He was subsequently the author of several dozen books and scientific articles devoted to his favourite subject. As Professor emeritus of history at the University of Reunion Island, former president of the International Historical Association of the Indian Ocean (1998-2008), and member of the Academy of Reunion since 1969, Claude Wanquet regularly collaborated with the Departmental Council to make scientific research more popular and accessible to the general public. In 2017, Claude Wanquet agreed to be an honorary member of the scientific committee for the initial plans of the new Vill\u00e8le Museum.<\/p>\n<p>From today, the Departmental Library of Reunion Island and the Museum\u2019s online portal about slavery in Reunion Island include a homage to this remarkable historian.<\/p>\n<p>The Departmental Council extends its sincere condolences to the family and friends of Claude Wanquet.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read the articles by Claude Wanquet published on the site\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/documentaires\/the-desbassayns-estate\/the-desbassayns-family\/portrait-of-henri-paulin-panon-desbassayns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Portrait of Henri-Paulin Panon-Desbassayns \/<\/em> Claude Wanquet<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bibliography\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Histoire d\u2019une r\u00e9volution : La R\u00e9union 1789-1803 \/ Claude Wanquet<\/em>. \u2013 Marseille : J. Laffitte, 1980. \u2013 3 vol. (779 p., 514 p., 622 p.) ; 22 cm.<\/p>\n<p><em>Des marines au port de la pointe des galets : 1886-1986, centenaire <\/em>\/ [Comit\u00e9 du centenaire de la ville du Port] ; [r\u00e9d. par] Ang\u00e8le Squarzoni, Claude Wanquet, \u00c9lie Fontaine, Edmond Maestri\u2026 [et al.] ; pr\u00e9face de Claude Wanquet . \u2013 La R\u00e9union : Comit\u00e9 du centenaire de la ville du Port, 1987. \u2013 (195 p.): ill.; 21 cm . \u2013 (1886-1986 Centenaire).<\/p>\n<p><em>Fragments pour une histoire des \u00e9conomies et soci\u00e9t\u00e9s de plantation \u00e0 La R\u00e9union <\/em>\/ sous la direction de Claude Wanquet. \u2013\u00a0Saint-Denis : Publications de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de la R\u00e9union, Centre de documentation et de Recherche en Histoire R\u00e9gionale de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de la R\u00e9union, 1989. \u2013 351 p. : couv. ill. en coul. ; 21 cm.<\/p>\n<p><em>La R\u00e9volution \u00e0 la R\u00e9union : 1789-1803 : [exposition, H\u00f4tel de ville de Saint-Denis, 1990<\/em>] \/ [organis\u00e9e par le] Mus\u00e9e de Vill\u00e8le\u2026 ; [catalogue de] Claude Wanquet,\u2026 ; [pr\u00e9f. de Jean Barbier]. \u2013 Saint-Gilles-les-Hauts : Mus\u00e9e historique de Vill\u00e8le, 1990. \u2013\u00a01\u00a0vol. (24 p.) : ill. en noir et en coul. ; 21 cm.<\/p>\n<p><em>Les Premiers d\u00e9put\u00e9s de La R\u00e9union \u00e0 l\u2019Assembl\u00e9e nationale : quatre insulaires en R\u00e9volution (1790-1798<\/em>) \/ Claude Wanquet. \u2013 Paris : Karthala, 1992. \u2013 1 vol. (237 p.) ; 22 cm.<\/p>\n<p><em>La France et la premi\u00e8re abolition de l\u2019esclavage : 1794-1802 : le cas des colonies orientales Ile de France (Maurice) et La R\u00e9union<\/em> \/ Claude Wanquet. \u2013 Paris : Karthala, 1998. \u2013 1 vol. (724 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm. \u2013 (Hommes et soci\u00e9t\u00e9s).<\/p>\n<p><em>Henri Paulin Panon Desbassayns : autopsie d\u2019un\u00a0\u00bbgros Blanc\u00a0\u00bb r\u00e9unionnais de la fin du XVIIIe si\u00e8cle<\/em> \/ Claude Wanquet . \u2013\u00a0Saint-Gilles-les-Hauts : Mus\u00e9e historique de Vill\u00e8le, 2011. \u2013 1 vol. (335 p.-[32] p. de pl.) : ill. en noir et en coul. ; 25 cm. \u2013\u00a0(Collection patrimoniale Histoire).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Departmental Council would like to celebrate the memory of eminent historian Claude Wanquet, who passed away recently. &nbsp; A reputed specialist of the revolutionary and imperial period, he began his career as a writer with the publication of his thesis \u2018History of a Revolution: Reunion Island (1789-1803)\u2019. He was subsequently the author of several &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/tribute-to-historian-claude-wanquet-1937-2020\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tribute to historian Claude Wanquet (1937-2020)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}