Inside the emotional parliamentary fight to erase a brutal slavery decree-and why critics say France's reckoning is still ...

The National Assembly voted 254-0 — a rare show of unanimity — to adopt a bill repealing the Code Noir, or Black Code, the ...

France’s powerful lower house voted finally to scrub a fundamental slavery-era edict from French law on Thursday. After the ...

National assembly votes to repeal Code Noir under which enslaved people were beaten, raped and killed ...

Lawmakers voted unanimously to strip the “Code Noir,” the texts that regulated slavery until it was abolished in 1848. Some ...

Now that France has finally repealed the so-called Code Noir or Black Code, experts are urging the country to also consider ...

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 ...

France is poised to repeal the Code Noir, a historic law governing slavery, revealing ongoing issues of colonial legacy and ...

In yesterday’s edition of The Express, we published a story about the French National Assembly’s unanimous decision to repeal the country’s long-dormant Code Noir, or Black Code. Enacted in 1685 under ...

French lawmakers have voted to formally repeal the 'Code noir', laws that defined enslaved individuals as property, although ...

The National Assembly voted 254-0 — a rare show of unanimity — to adopt a bill repealing the Code Noir, or Black Code, the 1685 decree King Louis XIV signed to govern slaves across France’s colonies.