Also known as: Jean-Philippe Garran de Coulon, Garran de Coulon, Garran report, Rapport sur les troubles de Saint-Domingue
Last updated: April 16, 2026
The official four-volume parliamentary report (1797–1799) submitted to the French National Assembly by deputy Jean-Philippe Garran de Coulon, reconstructing the causes and course of the Saint-Domingue insurrections from 1789 onward. Drawing on colonial correspondence, legislative records, and testimony concerning commissioners Sonthonax and Polverel, it constitutes one of the most comprehensive contemporary documentary accounts of the revolutionary period and served as a principal source for later historians including Beaubrun Ardouin.
The Garran de Coulon report documents the Sophie case — the mutilation of a wet nurse attributed to Larchevesque-Thibaud, later cited by Vastey in his indictment of colonial violence.
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Jean-Philippe Garran de Coulon. "Rapport sur les troubles de Saint-Domingue." 1797. Rasin.ai, https://rasin.ai/connections/sources/garran-de-coulon-rapport. Accessed 2026-05-05.