Mémoire pour le chef de bridgade Magloire Pélage et pour les habitans de la Guadeloupe
Subtitle: chargés, par cette colonie, de l'administration provisoire, après le départ du capitaine-général Lacrosse, dans le mois de brumaire an 10
Contributors: Langlois, Jean Thomas; Pélage, Magloire, 1766-1810
Publisher: Chez Desenne, libraire, Palais du Tribunat, no. 2; Petit, Palais du Tribunat, galerie vitrée, no. 42; Le Normant, rue des Prêtres St.-Germain-l'Auxerrois, no. 42; Veuve Dufresne, Palais de Justice
Published: 1803
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Subjects: Generals; Biography; History
Other titles: Mémoire pour les habitans de la Guadeloupe, etc.
Notes: Attributed to Hippolyte de Frasans and Jean Thomas Langlois by Barbier.

Colophons to volume 1 and 2 read: De l'imprimerie de Porthmann, rue neuve des Petits-Champs, près la rue Helvétius.

Memoire of Magloire Pélage, who was born on a plantation, and who may have been born a slave, in Lamentin, Martinique, to two mulatto parents in 1766, and who rose through the ranks to become a French general. He fought all over the West Indies in battles between the French and English forces. In 1801, the former governor, Lacrosse, was exiled from Guadeloupe, whereupon Pélage served as governor of the colony from 1801-1802. In 1801, following Lacrosse's return to France, he fought along with the slaves and men of color in their uprising against the French forces. In 1802 he was wounded and captured in Guadelope and set to prison. Upon his release in 1807 he fought for the Spanish forces in the Peninsular War (1808-1814) and perished in Spain in 1810.

Paginatiion: v. 1: [4], 326, xxxix, [1] p.; v. 2: viij, 358, [2] p.

Signatures: v. 1: pi² (pi1 verso blank) A-T⁸ V⁶ X⁴ Y² (-Y2) [a]⁴ b-e⁴; v. 2: pi⁴ (pi1, pi2 versos blank) A-Y⁸ (O3 missigned O4) Z⁴

Errata: v. 1, p. [1], 4th count; v. 2, p. [1-2], 3rd count.

Barbier, A.A. Ouvrage anonymes, 11180.

Sabin 29042.

Leclerc, C. Biblioteca americana, 962.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary pink paper wrappers.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Sophia Augusta Brown Fund.