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	Victor Schoelcher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Schoelcher was the foremost French specialist on the Caribbean in general and on colonial questions in the 19th century.
		Schoelcher and "schloelcherism" created in 1848 a myth, the myth of slavery, savior of the colonial population bound in servitude, defender of civil rights which recognized the decree of abolition of 1848.
		Victor Schoelcher died in 1893 after having written on colonial developments during two-thirds of the 19th century and protesting against the clandestine slave trade and survivals of slavery.
	www.ohiou.edu /~Chastain/rz/schoel.htm (592 words)

	GUADELOUPE TOURISTIQUE - Musée Schoelcher
		Victor Schoelcher est né à Paris le 5 thermidor ans XII (22 juillet 1804).
		The saint of the 22 is Marie Madeleine and that of July 21 is Victor.
		Tous les objets que Schoelcher a donné pour créer le musée ont un rapport avec l'histoire de France, l'Antiquité grecque et latine, l'Egypte ancienne et les voyages qu'il a effectué poue se cultiver.
	guadlouptour.ifrance.com /schoelcher.html (951 words)

	Victor Schoelcher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Schoelcher was the foremost French specialist on the Caribbean in general and on colonial questions in the 19th century.
		Schoelcher and "schloelcherism" created in 1848 a myth, the myth of slavery, savior of the colonial population bound in servitude, defender of civil rights which recognized the decree of abolition of 1848.
		Victor Schoelcher died in 1893 after having written on colonial developments during two-thirds of the 19th century and protesting against the clandestine slave trade and survivals of slavery.
	cscwww.cats.ohiou.edu /~Chastain/rz/schoel.htm (592 words)

	Victor Schoelcher - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Victor Schoelcher (1804 - 25 December 1893) was a French abolitionist writer in the 1800's and the main spokesman for a group from Paris who worked for the abolition of slavery, and formed an abolition society in 1834.
		He became the president of the commission for the abolition of slavery and on April 27, 1848 the French government decreed that slavery was abolished in all of its colonies.
		Schoelcher was elected senator for life in 1875.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Victor_Schoelcher (389 words)

	Search Results for "Victor"
		...Herbert, Victor, 1859-1924, Irish-American cellist, composer, and conductor, studied at the Stuttgart Conservatory.
		...Hugh of Saint Victor, 1096-1141, French or German philosopher and theologian, a canon regular of the monastery of St. Victor, Paris, from c.1115.
		Victor Emmanuel II, 1820-78, king of Sardinia (1849-61) and first king of united Italy (1861-78).
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=col65&query=Victor (258 words)

	Victor Schoelcher, le personnage
		Victor Shoelcher est mort, le 25 décembre 1893, à; l'âge de 89 ans, dans sa maison au 24 rue d'Argenteuil, devenue depuis l'avenue Schoelcher, à Houilles notre ville.
		Schoelcher n'était pas un très bon homme d'affaires.
		Victor Shoelcher continua à se battre pour ce en quoi il croyait : il voulait faire supprimer la peine de mort, que l'Etat se charge de l'éducation des enfants, que les femmes aient une meilleure position dans la société.
	www.ac-versailles.fr /etabliss/Toussaint/vschoel/vs/vs00.htm (500 words)

	Fort de France Heritage - Martinique inheritance.
		Thus, the two more attaching monuments of the city, the Schoelcher Library and the Saint-Louis Cathedral are typical metal architecture style which marked the end of the XIX century.
		Intended to accomodate the collection of books offered by the abolitionist Victor Schoelcher, for a free access of each one to the culture, the library proposes today a bottom of 130000 books and remains open to all.
		Son of a parisian porcelain maker, Victor Schoelcher militates as of his youth for the emancipation of the fl people and the abolition of the death penalty.
	www.zananas-martinique.com /en-fort-de-france-martinique/heritage.htm (610 words)

	cg971.fr : Le Musée Schoelcher : Victor Schoelcher
		Victor Schoelcher rentre en relation avec la société américaine anti-esclavagiste.
		Victor Schoelcher débarque à l'île de Gorée (Sénégal), point d'embarquement des captifs à destination des Antilles.
		Victor Schoelcher s'installe à Houilles (Nord Ouest de Paris).
	www.cg971.fr /musees/schoelcher/vschoelcher.htm (273 words)

	Society : A tribute to Victor Schoelcher
		A number of events in France in 2004 have celebrated the bicentenary of the birth of Victor Schoelcher, parliamentary deputy and senator, who died in 1893 and whose ashes were laid to rest in the Pantheon in Paris in 1949.
		It is hard not to believe in the existence of a freedom fairy watching over the cradle of little Victor Schoelcher on that 22 July 1804.
		Victor Schoelcher returned from Gambia at the start of the Second Republic to take up an appointment as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies.
	www.diplomatie.gouv.fr /en/article-imprim.php3?id_article=6235 (924 words)

	Martinique in 2001 ( ) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Schoelcher Library was built of steel for the 1889 World Exposition in Paris by Henri Pick in the architectural style made famous by Gustave Eiffel.
		Victor Schoelcher was a humanitarian propagandist and political leader who crusaded for the abolition of slavery for more than 15 years before the 1848 revolution led to the adoption of emancipation legislation in France.
		This beautifully restored building on avenue Des Caraïbes, not far from the Schoelcher Library, was the town house of rich sugar barons where the family members could stay when not at the plantation house.
	www.berclo.net /page01/01en-martinique.html (727 words)

	L'abolitionnisme de Victor Schoelcher, un humanisme mâtiné de colonialisme et de moralisme
		Schoelcher était tellement convaincu des vertus des valeurs républicaines de la métropole, que son combat, certes humaniste et égalitaire, restait mâtiné de colonialisme, de paternalisme et de moralisme, ce qui l'amena à prendre des directions assez surprenantes notamment dans ses prises de position contre l'esclavage et dans l'organisation du statut des colonies.
		The aim is not to diminish Victor Schoelcher's considerable achievements, but to fight against the unanimous preconceptions that have transformed this man into a myth.
		Schoelcher was so sure of the virtues of the republican values of the mother country, that his fight, albeit humanist and egalitarian, was tempered by colonialism, paternalism and moralism.
	ch.revues.org /document269.html (297 words)

	Victor Schoelcher : biographie,dons,liens.
		Victor Schoelcher est né le 22 juillet 1804 et est connu comme celui qui a aboli l'esclavage au sein de le République Françoise, via le décret du 27 avril 1848.
		C'est à cette époque que le jeune Victor Schoelcher découvrit l'esclavage et le prit en horreur.
		Après 1848 et le retour de L'empire, Victor Schoelcher dut fuir en Angleterre, comme d'autres gens célèbres tel que Victor Hugo.
	www.victor-schoelcher.com (209 words)

	France commemorates slave trade victims - Boston.com
		Visitors pay their respect to Victor Schoelcher in front of his tomb at the Pantheon in Paris, Wednesday May 10, 2006.
		Victor Schoelcher, a French politician who died in 1893 was the initiator of abolition of slavery.
		France for the first time Wednesday honored the victims of its slave trade, 158 years after it stopped the practice of taking people from their African homelands and enslaving them in Caribbean colonies.
	www.boston.com /news/education/k_12/articles/2006/05/10/france_commemorates_slave_trade_victims (806 words)

	programme images de soi
		Schoelcher est également un centre nautique renommé et possède au pied du bourg une charmante place.
		The campus of the Université des Antilles et de la Guyane is located in the small town of Schoelcher which was named after the abolitionist Victor Schoelcher (see photo).
		Schoelcher is also a famous nautical base, and has a charming square by the sea side.
	www.univ-ag.fr /imagesdesoi/schoelcher_imagesdesoi.htm (138 words)

	Imago Mundi - Victor Schoelcher.
		Schoelcher (Victor), homme politique français, né à Paris le 22 juillet 1804, mort à Houilles le 26 décembre 1893.
		Schoelcher opta pour la Martinique et siégea sur la Montagne.
		Victor Schoelcher se prononça pour les mesures les plus libérales, ne laissa jamais passer l'opportunité de plaider la cause des Noirs, auxquels il prétait généreusement toutes sortes de qualités; vota contre l'expédition de Rome, etc.
	www.cosmovisions.com /Schoelcher.htm (438 words)

	Victor Schoelcher
		On 3 March, 1848, he was appointed under-secretary of the navy, and caused adecree to be issued by the provisional government which acknowledged the principle of the enfranchisement of the slaves through the French possessions.
		As president of a commission, Schoelcher prepared and wrote the decree of 27 April, 1848, which enfranchised the slaves forever.
		He was elected to the legislative assembly in 1848 and 1849 for Martinique, and introduced a bill for the abolition of the death-penalty, which was to be discussed on the day on which Prince Napoleon made his coup d'etat.
	www.famousamericans.net /victorschoelcher (481 words)

	200th anniversary of the birth of Victor Schoelcher: UNESCO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The name of Victor Schoelcher (1804-1893) is forever associated with the emancipation of the slaves of the French colonies, when as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies in 1848 he signed the decree abolishing slavery.
		An art critic, musicologist and a supporter of the abolition of the death penalty, who also gave his support to the Society for the Improvement of the Status of Women, Victor Schoelcher devoted his main efforts to the struggle to abolish slavery.
		His ashes were transferred to the Pantheon in Paris in 1949.
	portal.unesco.org /en/ev.php-URL_ID=18510&URL_DO=DO_PRINTPAGE&URL_SECTION=201.html (123 words)

	Commandant Riviere class (Avisos Escorteurs)
		The first unit, Victor Schoelcher, was laid down in 1957 and the final one, Enseigne de Vaisseau Henry, was commissioned in 1965.
		Often deployed to the remnants of the French colonial empire in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, the 'Commandant Riviere' class were eventually fitted with four Exocet missiles, which made them versatile warships given their powerful anti-submarine armament.
		Victor Schoelcher was sold to Uruguay in 1988, and two other units followed in 1990.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/europe/riviere.htm (279 words)

	..: "Handel with care" : Georg Friedrich Haendel/Hendel/Handel/Händel [Karl Franz Friedrich Chrysander] :.. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The late Victor Schoelcher, himself an able and enthusiastic Handel lover, secured the lot - it narrowly escaped being caught up by the Sacred Harmonic Society - which proved to be in the handwriting of the two Smiths.
		Schoelcher immediately placed the volumes at Chrysander’s disposal.
		Though Chrysander could not scrape together more than £100, and had to leave the volumes in Schoelcher’s hands for some years, he (Schoelcher) stuck to the bargain, in spite of the increased offers he meanwhile had received.
	handel-with-care.net /article.php3?id_article=12 (467 words)

	Fort-de-France \| Martinique Sights & Activities \| Fodor's Online Travel Guide
		The Bibliothèque Schoelcher is the wildly elaborate Romanesque public library.
		It was named after Victor Schoelcher, who led the fight to free the slaves in the French West Indies in the 19th century.
		Rue Victor Schoelcher runs through the center of the capital's primary shopping district, a six-block area bounded by rue de la République, rue de la Liberté, rue Victor Severe, and rue Victor Hugo.
	www.fodors.com /miniguides/mgresults.cfm?destination=martinique@97&cur_section=sig&property_id=36009 (839 words)

	Victor Schoelcher - BiblioMonde (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Né en 1804 à Paris, Victor Schoelcher est d'origine alsacienne.
		Victor Schlcher est ensuite député de la Martinique, avant de s'exiler en Angleterre à cause de ses idées républicaines.
		Victor Shoelcher est mort, le 25 décembre 1893, à l'âge de 89 ans, à Houilles.
	www.bibliomonde.net /pages/fiche-auteur.php3?id_auteur=978 (161 words)

	Amazon.com: SCHOELCHER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Victor Schoelcher en son temps: Images et témoignages by Nelly Schmidt (Unknown Binding - 1998)
		Victor Schoelcher et l'abolition de l'esclavage by Nelly Schmidt (Unknown Binding - 1994)
		The Arrest of Victor Schoelcher at the Saint-Antoine Barricade, 4th December 1851 Giclee Print by French School, 18" x 24" by AllPosters.com
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=SCHOELCHER&tag=icongroupinterna&index=blended&link_code=qs&page=1 (414 words)

	Victor Schoelcher - Wikipédia
		Victor Schoelcher était un homme politique français, né à Paris le 22 juillet 1804 et mort le 25 décembre 1893 à Houilles.
		Républicain, défenseur des droits de la femme, adversaire de la peine de mort, il est proscrit durant le Second Empire par le coup d'état de Louis Napoléon Bonaparte.
		En hommage à son combat contre l'esclavage, la commune Case-Navire (Martinique), prit le nom de Schoelcher en 1888.
	fr.wikipedia.org /wiki/Victor_Schoelcher (522 words)

	Fan The Flame by Leonard Tim Hector (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		That single, solitary, white European who raised his voice against reparations being paid to the perpetrators of slavery is Victor Schoelcher.
		Today, in 2001, Europe and America still argue with the unarguable point made by Victor Schoelcher – racism and the addiction to Capital, command this insistently irrational stance.
		What Sanroma and the great Victor Schoelcher saw so clearly and so justly more than a hundred years ago, the great minds and rulers of Europe and America cannot now see.
	www.candw.ag /~jardinea/ffhtm/ff010921.htm (2584 words)

	Caribbean Escapes
		Newlyweds are well advised to rent a car to take in the island's sights, to visit the "Balata Gardens" whose paths unfold fabulous tropical flora, the "Balata Church" which was designed after the Sacré Coeur in Paris, and "La Pagerie", birthplace of Empress Joséphine where sensual love letters from Napoleon are on display.
		Among the sightseeing attractions is the city's architectural masterpiece, the Bibliothèque Schoelcher (or Schoelcher Library), a Romanesque-Byzantine gem built more than 100 years ago for the Paris Exposition of 1889, then dismantled and shipped to Martinique, mosaic by mosaic.
		Named for Victor Schoelcher, the French abolitionist whose work helped end slavery on the island in 1848, it sits just off La Savane, the central park.
	www.caribbeanescapes.com /fe_destinations_view.asp?IDIsland=16 (307 words)

	CHARLES PLUMIER, VICTOR SCHOELCHER, QUERCY, ESTEREL, BARFLEUR, MAURIENNE, DUBREKA, DJOLIBA
		CHARLES PLUMIER and VICTOR SCHOELCHER were two of these, built as banana carriers, but I had no way then of determining the identities of any others, nor how many others there were.
		This involved ammonia refrigerating machines, circulating cooled brine and electric fans to circulate cool air within the hold spaces where the fruit was hung.
		VICTOR SCHOELCHER, built by Forges and Chantiers de la Méditerranée, S.A., of La Seyne, completed 02/1938, and operated by Cie.
	freespace.virgin.net /mike.mackenzie2/OthrVess.htm (1081 words)

	Fort-de-France : Attractions \| Frommers.com
		The religious centerpiece of the island, it's an extraordinary iron building, which has been likened to "a sort of Catholic railway station." A number of the island's former governors are buried beneath the choir loft.
		A statue in front of the Palais de Justice is of the island's second main historical figure, Victor Schoelcher, who worked to free the slaves more than a century ago.
		Functioning today as the island's central government-funded library, the elaborate structure was first displayed at the Paris Exposition of 1889.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/fort-de-france/0338010029.html (720 words)

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