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

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

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 ...

French lawmakers on Thursday voted unanimously to repeal the Code Noir, a colonial-era law that classified enslaved people as ...

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

France's legislature took a symbolic step by voting unanimously to retract the historic Code Noir, a draconian set of decrees ...

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

Whether the move helps the nation fight against racism and inequality in its overseas territories, “remains to be seen,” deputy director of the Foundation for the Memory of Slavery told AP.

By Layli Foroudi PARIS, May 28 (Reuters) - French lawmakers voted on Thursday to formally repeal slavery-era laws that ...

France's parliament is moving to repeal a slavery law called Code Noir that has remained quietly in place for nearly two centuries after slavery was abolished ...