Anna Colas Pépin
Anna Colas Pépin or Anne-Nicolas "Annacolas" Pépin (1787–1872), was a Euro-African signare businesswoman.[1] She belongs to the most famous examples of the signares of Gorée, but has often been confused with her paternal aunt Anne Pépin.
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She was the daughter of Nicolas Pépin (1744–1815) and Marie-Thérèse Picard (d. 1790), married François de Saint-Jean and became the mother of Mary de Saint Jean (1815–1853), wife of the first Senegalese member of the French Parliament, Barthélémy Durand Valantin (1806–1864): the famous painting made by Édouard Auguste Nousveaux could depict either Anna Colas Pépin or her daughter.
Pépin was described as a leading and influential member of the Signare community, and invested in land and buildings on Gorée in cooperation with the French authorities. As a leading member of the local elite, she famously received François d'Orléans, Prince of Joinville on his visit to Gorée in 1842, a scene depicted by Édouard Auguste Nousveaux.