Blancs - TLP - The Louverture Project
Mar 18, 2006·Les petits blancs (the small whites) were lower-class whites who generally comprised the merchant class of Saint-Domingue.The French Revolution coincided perfectly with their notions of 'equality, liberty and fraternity.' To display their solidarity with the ideas that led to that revolution, les petits blancs wore red cockades, which led to their being called pompons rouges ('the red pompoms').