Analysis of the Victorine's illustration Watercolour by Hippolyte Charles Napoléon Mortier, the Duke of Trevise dating from 1865, and representing "the old lady", who was called Victorine Context Victorine was very old in 1866, 13 years after the French abolition of slavery. Victorine may have arrived on the island as a child, as a slave. Young domestic slaves were in the permanent service of their masters, and apprenticed to older slaves. When...