Jean-Baptiste Belley
Jean-Baptiste Belley | |
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Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Belley by Girodet, 1797. Belley appears with a bust of the abolitionist Guillaume Raynal. | |
| Deputy in the National Convention | |
| In office 24 September 1793 – 31 October 1795 | |
| Parliamentary group | The Mountain |
| Constituency | Saint-Domingue |
| Deputy in the Council of Five Hundred | |
| In office 31 October 1795 – May 1797 | |
| Parliamentary group | The Mountain |
| Constituency | Saint-Domingue |
| Personal details | |
| Born | c. 1746 Gorée, French Senegal, Kingdom of France |
| Died | 1805 Le Palais, Brittany, French Empire |
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Jean-Baptiste Belley (c. 1746 – 1805) was a Saint-Dominguan 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 National Convention and the Council of Five Hundred during the French First Republic. He was also known as Mars.