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- Le Crime de Napoléon est un ouvrage littéraire et historique écrit par Claude Ribbe, paru le 1er décembre 2005 aux éditions Privé et édité par Guy Birenbaum qui évoque, sous forme de pamphlet, le rétablissement de l'esclavage par Napoléon Bonaparte en 1802 et la répression de la résistance à ce rétablissement tant en Guadeloupe qu'à Saint-Domingue. L'ouvrage, dont la première édition était de 35 000 exemplaires, a été traduit au Brésil, en Chine et en Corée. La première édition ayant été épuisée dès 2006, Le Crime de Napoléon a été réédité par Le Cherche midi sous la direction de Pierre Drachline en 2013 . Il a été vivement critiqué par la plupart des historiens spécialistes de la période qui considèrent que le livre tient davantage du pamphlet que du livre d'histoire. (fr)
- Napoleon's Crimes: A Blueprint for Hitler (French: Le Crime de Napoléon) is a book published in 2005 by French writer Claude Ribbe, who is of Caribbean origin. In the book, Ribbe advances the thesis that Napoleon Bonaparte during the Haitian Revolution first used gas chambers as a method of mass execution, 140 years before Hitler and the Nazis. His accusations in the book has caused a minor political and academic storm when it was published, and its premise remains under contention to this day. In the early 19th century, Napoleon had reinstated slavery in the French colonies of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) and Guadeloupe were hit by a series of massive slave rebellions. Napoleon, as the person responsible for the reinstatement of slavery after the First French Republic had abolished it, was in charge of putting the slave revolts down, and he did so with brutal efficiency. Ribbe claims that some of Napoleon's men refused to do as they were ordered, and then later wrote journals describing the massacre. From these passages, he claims that Napoleon's troops burnt sulphur (readily collected from nearby volcanoes) to make sulphur dioxide gas, which is extremely poisonous. This would have been effective at helping to quell the rebelling Caribbean slaves. Ribbe's most controversial accusation is that the holds of ships were used as makeshift gas chambers; and that up to 100,000 black slaves were murdered in them. These revelations are still in considerable academic dispute, but when the book was published, the French establishment was quick to condemn his allegations. The French newspaper France Soir, for instance, published a stinging editorial, calling the claims of the book insane. The French historian Pierre Branda wrote a critical analysis of Ribbe's book, stating that it is mainly based on suppositions and that the sources are few and often quoted and referred to with heavy omissions. (en)
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- Le Crime de Napoléon est un ouvrage littéraire et historique écrit par Claude Ribbe, paru le 1er décembre 2005 aux éditions Privé et édité par Guy Birenbaum qui évoque, sous forme de pamphlet, le rétablissement de l'esclavage par Napoléon Bonaparte en 1802 et la répression de la résistance à ce rétablissement tant en Guadeloupe qu'à Saint-Domingue. (fr)
- Napoleon's Crimes: A Blueprint for Hitler (French: Le Crime de Napoléon) is a book published in 2005 by French writer Claude Ribbe, who is of Caribbean origin. In the book, Ribbe advances the thesis that Napoleon Bonaparte during the Haitian Revolution first used gas chambers as a method of mass execution, 140 years before Hitler and the Nazis. His accusations in the book has caused a minor political and academic storm when it was published, and its premise remains under contention to this day. (en)
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