From Nantes to La Rochelle, Le Havre to Bordeaux, debates over plaques, museums, street names and monuments reveal a broader national question: how should France face its past of slavery and colonialism?
Emma Albright - emma.albright@thelocal.com
Updated: Mon 1 Jun 2026 11:09 CET
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Mémorial de l'Abolition de l'Esclavage (memorial for the memory of slavery), in Nantes, France. (Photo: Chabe01/Wikimedia Commons)
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