France’s National Assembly has voted unanimously to repeal the Code Noir, the 1685 royal decree that regulated slavery across the French colonial empire. Although slavery was abolished permanently in ...

PARIS — For nearly two centuries after France abolished slavery, the colonial-era law that classified humans as property has ...

In May 2025, François Bayrou, then the prime minister of France, fielded an unusual question from a member of Parliament: Why hadn’t France formally revoked the Code Noir, the ...

Lawmakers voted unanimously to strip the “Code Noir,” the texts that regulated slavery until it was abolished in 1848. Some ...

For the next five years the revolutionary French republic formed something the world had never seen: a trans-Atlantic republic officially committed to ensuring equal rights for me ...

French lawmakers in the lower house of parliament on Thursday adopted a bill to repeal a 17th-century law that governed ...