{"id":2661,"date":"2025-04-16T10:26:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T10:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parastatal1.govmu.org\/ssrbg\/?page_id=2661"},"modified":"2025-04-16T10:28:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T10:28:13","slug":"avenue-adrien-depinay-1794-1839","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ssrbg.govmu.org\/ssrbg\/?page_id=2661","title":{"rendered":"Avenue Adrien d&#8217;Epinay (1794-1839)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2661\" class=\"elementor elementor-2661\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-abf7118 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"abf7118\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-388a657 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"388a657\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c2d218a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c2d218a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Antoine Zacharie Adrien d&#8217;\u00c9pinay was born on\u00a0<em>Isle de France<\/em>\u00a0on 6 February 1794. Barrister, banker, sugar estate owner and newspaper editor, he was the uncontested leader of the French inhabitants in the newly founded British colony of Mauritius.<\/p><p>Adrien d&#8217;\u00c9pinay started his career as a lawyer\u00a0 in\u00a0Port Louis\u00a0in 1816\u00a0 and became a prominent political figure when he was 27 in 1821.<\/p><p>In early 1822, D&#8217;\u00c9pinay was part of a private militia which captured\u00a0 Malagasy escapee and political prisoner\u00a0Ratsitatanina\u00a0 before the British colonial soldiers could find him.<\/p><p>In 1824 he took a leading role in the controversy between traders and planters over the reduction of the duty of entry on Mauritian sugar into England.<\/p><p>In 1827, D\u2019Epinay founded the Colonial Committee which express object was to \u201cconciliate the views of His Majesty\u2019s Government with the interests of the colony. The <em>Comit\u00e9 Colonial<\/em> consisted of agricultural societies and was particularly active in urging the adoption of a steam-power in sugar factories.<\/p><p>In 1829, he was a founding member of the <em>Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 d\u2019Histoire Naturelle de l\u2019Ile Maurice <\/em>which gathered about 30 naturalists of the island.<\/p><p>Adrien d&#8217;\u00c9pinay made representations to the British Government in London in 1831 and in 1833 on behalf of sugar planters. He fought against British slave amelioration laws and successfully campaigned for slaveowners to be compensated for the loss of their slaves due to the abolition of slavery in 1835.<\/p><p>He also secured the right of colonists to serve on the Legislative Council, the abolition of monopoly, the establishing of a police force, the prosecution of abuse related to alcohol, and the lifting of censorship of the press.<\/p><p>Adrien d&#8217;\u00c9pinay co-founded the first &#8216;independent&#8217; and daily newspaper in Mauritius, newspaper\u00a0<em>Le Cern\u00e9en<\/em>, whose first issue appeared on 14 February 1832.<\/p><p>In 1832, Adrien<em>\u00a0D\u2019Epinay<\/em>\u00a0succeeded in obtaining the capital necessary from British Associates for the establishment of the Mauritius Bank.<\/p><p>Adrien d&#8217;Epinay became the owner of the <em>Mon Plaisir<\/em> estate in 1836. He had the ambition to devote time to horticulture, but he passed away three years later in 1839 and was not able to complete his project.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antoine Zacharie Adrien d&#8217;\u00c9pinay was born on\u00a0Isle de France\u00a0on 6 February 1794. Barrister, banker, sugar estate owner and newspaper editor, he was the uncontested leader of the French inhabitants in the newly founded British colony of Mauritius. 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