Jean-Baptiste Belley | |
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![]() Belley with a bust of the abolitionist Guillaume Raynal, portrait by Girodet, 1797 | |
Deputy in the National Convention | |
In office 24 September 1793 – 26 October 1795 | |
Parliamentary group | The Plain |
Constituency | Saint-Domingue |
Deputy in the Council of Five Hundred | |
In office 26 October 1795 – 26 December 1799 | |
Parliamentary group | Thermidorians[1] |
Constituency | Saint-Domingue |
Personal details | |
Born | c. July 1746 Gorée, French Senegal, Kingdom of France |
Died | 6 August 1805 Le Palais, Brittany, French Empire | (aged 59)
Jean-Baptiste Belley (c. July 1746 – 6 August 1805) was a Saint Dominican and French politician. A native of Senegal and formerly enslaved in the colony of Saint-Domingue, in the French West Indies, he was an elected member of the Estates General, the National Convention, and the Council of Five Hundred during the French First Republic.[2] He was also known as Mars.[3]