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Hugues’ reign on Guadeloupe didn’t last long, but it was bloodthirsty enough to be recalled vividly even today.
Hugues was anointed at Reims with an oil said to have been brought to earth by the angels, thus establishing kingship by divine right for the French.
After Britain seized Guadeloupe, Victor Hugues, commissaire of the Convention, wrenched the island back, proclaimed slavery abolished, and set about guillotining the old-guard colons.
In the central region, from the Loire Valley to Belgium, Hugues Capet succeeded in achieving a precarious ascendancy, and was crowned the first king of France in 987.