Claude Ribbe

Claude Ribbe (Paris, October 13rd 1954) is a writer, Historien and Philosophe French.

Biography

Former student of the National university (Ulm), aggregate of philosophy, originating in the Guadeloupe by his father and in the Digs by his mother, Claude Ribbe illustrated itself by revisiting the French slave past and while drawing from the lapse of memory of great figures resulting from this past: in particular the General Dumas and the Knight of Saint-George. In February 2004, Claude Ribbe protested against the departure of the Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, exiled by a American Coup d'etat supported by France.

The spectacle that Claude Ribbe wrote and who was put in scene by Bartabas in Versailles in 2004, the knight of Saint-George, an African at the court , gathered fifty thousand spectators in six representations. Its lampoon against Bonaparte, the Crime of Napoleon, appeared in 2005, at the time of the bicentenary of the Battle of Austerlitz, started a rough polemic while gaining a sharp success. Taking again a topic already approached in a romantic way in Forwarding , Claude Ribbe reveals there that a policy of racial extermination of the French citizens of Santo Domingo (today republic of Haiti) had been committed in 1802-1803, in particular by gazage with sulfur dioxide.

In the Negros of the Republic , Claude Ribbe questions the legitimacy of a black question and, being opposed to the analyzes Jean-Paul Sartre ( Orphée Noir , 1948), to the philosophical questioning the idea of négritude subjects. Its " Paradox of James Brown " relativize any vision of the humanity based on the prejudice of color.

Defending oneself to be a leader of the " community noire" from France, because he denounces any classifying principle founded on the color, he is very committed in the fight against racism, discriminations and the screening of the memory of slavery. Claude Ribbe was named in November 2005 member of the National advisory commission of the human rights. In 2006-2007, it chaired the Collectif of the West-Indians, Guianeses and Réunionnais (Collective DOM), one of most important associations of Outre-mer. Parallel to his activities of essay writer and novelist, Claude Ribbe carries out a career of dramatic author ( Delgrès , 2007), of scenario writer and realizer, and prepares the turning of several films devoted to the Chevalier of Saint-George and the Général Dumas. Since 2002, Claude Ribbe, in particular through the association of the friends of the General Dumas which it chairs, conducts campaign so that the statue of the Dumas general set up in Paris in 1906 (on the current place of the general-Catroux in 17th) and shot down by the Nazis in 1942 is replaced by a project of the Senegalese sculptor Ousmane Sow. He addressed in this direction a petition to Mr. Bertrand Delanoë, mayor of Paris. As soon as the statue positioned back, Claude Ribbe proposes to offir a copy with the Haitians of it, in accordance with the wish expressed by the writer Alexandre Dumas in 1838. " It would be a manner of recalling to the Europe" old woman; , wrote to the author of the Three Musketeers , " if proud of its antiquity and its civilization, that the Haitians, before ceasing being French, paid their share of glory in France."

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