The National Assembly voted 254-0 — a rare show of unanimity — to adopt a bill repealing the Code Noir, or Black Code, the ...
France is poised to repeal the Code Noir, a historic law governing slavery, revealing ongoing issues of colonial legacy and ...
Inside the emotional parliamentary fight to erase a brutal slavery decree-and why critics say France's reckoning is still ...
France’s powerful lower house voted finally to scrub a fundamental slavery-era edict from French law on Thursday. After the ...
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 ...
National assembly votes to repeal Code Noir under which enslaved people were beaten, raped and killed ...