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  title info:
    title: Casimir Fidèle
    sub title: parcours d'un affranchi : 1748-1796
  name:
    name part: Duprat, Julie
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: fr
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: fre
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 207 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: There are ghosts sticking to your heels. Mine was called 'Casimir Fidèle, negro caterer.'" Thus begins this book which retraces the itinerary of this "Native of Arada, Côte de Guinée," according to the origin that the French administration has attributed to him. Enslaved at the age of six, the man who was renamed Casimir by the captain who bought him on board the ship that tore him from his native land had an incredible trajectory. Arriving in Nantes, sold to new Parisian masters determined that he should become a chef, he then began a training course that led him, once free, to the head of a Bordeaux hotel where the local elite flocked. Until the end, mixed up in the tumults of history, he experienced the effervescence around the abolition of slavery in 1794, two years before his death. Julie Duprat retraces the multiple uprootings experienced by this survivor, his emancipation, his marriage, his paternity, his relationship with the elites but also with his companions in misfortune, "without betraying him," as close as possible to his experience. She confides in us her doubts, hesitations and hypotheses, while Casimir Fidèle's life is strewn with gaps and documentary holes. Conceived as a reparation, this story allows this forgotten figure to be revived.
  table of contents: Prologue -- Déraciné -- De Nantes à Paris : itinéraire d'un esclave -- La liberté chez les Lamontaigne -- L'Hôtel de l'Empereur à Bordeaux -- Fidèle derrière le masque -- Fidèle, citoyen de couleur -- Un député à Paris -- Épilogue -- Notes -- Remerciements -- Bibliographie indicative.
  note: Julie Duprat.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Fidèle, Casimir
      name part: 1748-1796
  subject:
    topic: Free Black people
    geographic: France
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Enslaved persons
    geographic: France
    genre: Biography
  classification: 944 920
  identifier: 9782271155450
  identifier: 2271155452
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 250903
    record change date: 20260224155008.9
    record identifier: in00005684830