Henri Grégoire

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Henri Grégoire
Born4 December 1750
Vého, France
Died28 May 1831
Paris, France
Political orientationClassical liberalism


Henri Jean-Baptiste Grégoire (4 December 1750 – 28 May 1831) was a French politician and priest. He was critical of both Jacobinism and slavery and compared bans on interracial marriages to feudal bans on commoners marrying members of the nobility. He supported the Haitian Revolution.[1]

References

  1. Domenico Losurdo (2011). Liberalism: A Counter-History: 'Crisis of the English and American Models' (pp. 143–145). [PDF] Verso. ISBN 9781844676934 [LG]