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Rappresentanza politica e libertà civile nelle colonie francesi: il Projet de loi relatif à la constitution politique (1841)
2015
From December 1840 to May 1841, the deliberations of the “Broglie Commission” (Commission des affaires Coloniales) were about the problem of colonial representation. The Commission presented a draft proposing the abolition of the colonial councils in the four French colonies and the colonial delegates for the King’s government. In substitution, every colony would have had a general elective council and its organization would have been established by royal ordinances in the form of procedures of the Public Administration. Despite the important work, the Commission failed to produce the desired results because of the opposition of landowners and colonies who wanted to preserve their «specific…
PELLEGRINO ROSSI RAPPORTEUR DU PROJET DE LOI RELATIF A LA CONSTITUTION POLITIQUE DES COLONIES FRANÇAISES
2018
On 12 June 1840, the lawyer and economist Pellegrino Rossi, Peer of France, entered the Commission chaired by Duke Victor de Broglie and in charge of an investigation of issues related to the slavery and the political constitution of the French colonies. This article aims to examine the role played by Pellegrino Rossi in the debate on the abolition of slavery in the French colonies and the project of political constitution of French colonies of which Rossi was the speaker and editor of the same articles.