Memories of slavery

Plaque in homage to Delgrès, Ministère de l’Outre-mer

Ministère des Outre-Mer
27 Rue Oudinot
75007 Paris
France
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At the occasion of the inauguration of the Louis Delgrès lounge at the Ministry of the Oversea in Paris on the 10th of May 2005, a commemorative plaque paying tribute to Delgrès was unveiled in the lo

Panthéon: graves of the abolitionists Grégoire, Schœlcher, Condorcet

Place du Panthéon
75005 Paris
France
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The graves of Victor Schœlcher, Condorcet and the Abbé Grégoire are located in the Panthéon. Schœlcher was placed in the Panthéon on the 20th of May 1949, and the Abbé Grégoire and Condorcet were bot

Panthéon: Plaques in homage to Toussaint Louverture, Louis Delgrès and Aimé Césaire

Place du Panthéon
75005 Paris
France
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Plaques paying tribute to Toussaint Louverture, the freed slave who fought for the independence of Haiti, and Louis Delgrès, who rebelled against the restoration of slavery in 1802, have been installe

Musée du Quai Branly

37 quai Branly
75007 Paris
France
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The Quai Branly museum or museum of the arts and civilizations of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas, exhibits 3 500 works of art from Africa, America, Asia and Oceania. The project, led by Jacqu

Stele: Le cri, l’écrit - Jardin du Luxembourg

Jardin du Luxembourg
75005 Paris
France
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Le cri, l’écrit (The Scream, the Writing) is a sculpture of almost four meters high, composed of three bronze rings welded together to form a chain.

Musée Dapper

35 bis, rue Paul Valéry
75116 Paris
France
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Opened in May 1986 under the direction of Christiane Falgayrettes-Leveau, the Dapper museum takes its name from a Dutch humanist from the seventeenth century, Olfert Dapper, author of the book "D

The memorial to the slaves of La Réunion in the Avirons

97425 Les Avirons
Reunion
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A memorial paying tribute to the people of La Réunion was inaugurated on the 20th of December 2000 in the Avirons, on the island of La Réunion.