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• Members of the lower house of the French parliament unanimously voted to abolish a series of royal edicts known as the "Code noir" or Black Code. The bill stops short of some lawmakers' demands like possible reparations.S1
• French lawmakers are set to vote on Thursday to repeal the Code Noir, a law that regulated slavery in the French colonies which was never formally repealed even after the abolition of slavery in 1848. The vote reopens a debate around reparations in a country t...S3