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Francois Bayrou at the National Assembly for questions to the government, on May 13, 2025.

Formally abolish the black code, which has legislated on slavery within the French colonies: that is what François Bayrou promised, Tuesday, May 13 in Parliament. “I make the commitment, on behalf of the government, that a text acting on the abolition of the black code will be presented in Parliament and, I hope, voted unanimously”mentioned the Prime Minister within the National Assembly, in the course of the present problems with the federal government.

He responded to the chief of Liot deputies, Laurent Bânifous, who requested him for the abolition of this order enacted in 1685 by Louis XIV who “Régit the enslavement of human beings and reduces it to the legal status of movable property”. “If one can believe that the decree of the abolition of slavery of 1848 has repealed the black code, it is not. No text formally abolished it ”underlined the deputy.

“Thanks to your query, I uncover this authorized actuality that I completely didn’t know, and I think about all these round us, that the black code was not abolished in 1848 as we imagine, after having been abolished in the course of the French Revolution, then restored by Napoleon”replied Mr. Bayrou. “If the black code was not abolished in 1848, it must be. We have to have the will, the capacity, the choice of historical rehabilitation of reconciling the Republic with itself ”he added.

The Prime Minister called on Saturday in Brest not to be silent in front of “The horrible and monstrous historical past of slavery”on the occasion of the National Day of Memories of Translation, Slavery and their abolitions, on May 10. He had described “A horrible and monstrous story by its dimensions as by its object: round 4 million ladies, males and youngsters skilled slavery from 1625 to 1848 within the French colonies”.

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