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Claude Ribbe is a French writer, activist, and filmmaker born in Paris on the 13th of October 1954. He trained at the Ecole normale superieure and has specialised in the history of colonialism in the Caribbean, while also campaigning for civil rights for people of African and Caribbean origin in France.
In his 2005 book Le Crime de Napoleon, Ribbe accused Napoleon of ordering the mass execution of more than 100,000 rebellious Black slaves in Saint-Domingue and Guadeloupe using sulphur dioxide gas. He argued this served as a model for Hitler's Holocaust nearly 140 years later.
Ribbe campaigned for recognition of Eugene Bullard, the Chevalier de Saint-Georges, and Thomas-Alexandre Dumas. Dumas was the first Black man promoted to general in the French Army, a rank he achieved in 1793.
Ribbe directed Le Diable Noir in 2009, The Legendary Chevalier de Saint-George in 2011, and Eugene Bullard in 2013.
Ribbe's books include Le Cri du Centaure (2001), Le Crime de Napoleon (2005), Les Negres de la Republique (2007), and Une autre histoire (2016), among others spanning Caribbean history, biography, and civil rights.
Claude Ribbe is an alumnus of the Ecole normale superieure, one of France's most prestigious higher education institutions.