10 euro – Martinique (Victor Schoelcher)

Series: France – Regions of France

10 euro coin – Martinique (Victor Schoelcher) | France 2012
Victor Schoelcher (22 July 1804, Paris - 25 December 1893, Houilles) was a French abolitionist writer in the 19th century and the main spokesman for a group from Paris who worked for the abolition of slavery, and formed an abolition society in 1834. He worked especially hard for the abolition of slavery on the Caribbean islands.