Claude Louis d'Espinchal, marquis de Massiac (15 November 1686 Brest

Brest, France

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 - 15 August 1770 Paris

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) was a French Admiral and Minister.

He was son of Barthélémy d'Espinchal de Massiac, 1626–1700, lawyer.
Claude-Louis-René de Mordant, Marquis of Massiac (1746–1806), inherited his fortune including sugar plantations in Santa Domingo. He held the Hotel de Massiac, which opposed the Society of the Friends of the Blacks

Society of the Friends of the Blacks

The Society of the Friends of the Blacks was a group of French men and women, mostly white, who were abolitionists . The Society was created in Paris in 1788, and remained in existence until 1793...

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