Mémoire de l’Outre-mer

President / Director: 
Michel COCOTIER
Address: 
Espace Louis DELGRÈS
89, Quai de la Fosse
44000 Nantes
France
Twitter name: 
https://twitter.com/outremer44
Telephone: 
International: +33 2 40 71 76 57; National: 02 40 71 76 57 (landline)
Registration date: 
Monday, April 23, 2001
Registration details: 

Registration details can be found in the Journal Officiel.

Status: 
Ongoing
Type: 
Community/social
Cultural
Educational
Scope: 
Regional/local: A smaller organization or association focused on local/regional activities.
Historical overview: 

The association Mémoire de l’Outre-mer is a cultural association dedicated to duty of memory in relation to the slave trade, slavery and their abolition, and works in the cultural, social and economic field.

In 2007, Mémoire de l’Outre-mer created the cultural center Louis Delgrès - House of the Oversea with the help of the city of Nantes, the culmination of a work begun in 1983 around the slave past of the city Nantes. Since 1998, Mémoire de l’Outre-mer manages a memorial project in the city itself with the city of Nantes, designed by Krysztof Wodiczko and located near a future resource center on the banks of the Loire, key location of the slave trade. This project started in 1983 when the association Combite Dom was created to "allow Nantes to assume its slave past." In 1989, the association took the name Mémoire de l’Outre-mer and its action contribute to the city of Nantes becoming the first city in France to engage in a memory work related to the period of enslavement.

Summary of objectives: 
  • To develop cultural and associative action in the French community of the Oversea
  • To promote the creation, research and development in various areas of interest to the oversea community
Keywords: 
Caribbean identity
French identity
Guadeloupean identity
Martiniquais identity
Memorial project
Memories of slavery
Réunion identity
Slave ancestry