The seychelles-The same; the coloured population outnumbering the white in the proportion of ten to one.
"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies"
Robert Gordon Latham
By an act of January 4th, 1801, as many as 130 prominent Jacobins were "placed under special surveillance outside the European territory of the Republic"-a specious phrase for denoting a living death amidst the wastes of French Guiana or the seychelles.
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose
Of those who were sent to Guiana and the seychelles, scarce twenty saw France again.
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose