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 ...

On Thursday, the lower house of parliament voted to wipe it from French law. The National Assembly voted 254-0 — a rare show ...

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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 ...

France TV Distribution has acquired “Furcy,” an epic film inspired by the true story of a slave in a French colony who was able to achieve legal emancipation prior to the definitive abolition of ...

May 7, 2024, marked the 70th anniversary of the battle of Dien Bien Phu, when Vietnamese troops defeated the French colonial army, ending almost a century of French colonial rule. A commemoration ...

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