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 voted 254-0 to adopt the bill to repeal Code Noir, it now ...

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

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 ...

The notorious Code Noir is gone. But people in Guadeloupe and Martinique continue to live with the consequences, says academic Marie-Annick Gournet ...

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

French lawmakers have voted to formally repeal the 'Code noir', laws that defined enslaved individuals as property, although reparations were not included. This move is largely symbolic, as the debate ...

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 ...

PARIS (AP) — For nearly two centuries after France abolished slavery, the colonial-era law that classified humans as property has remained quietly on the books. On Thursday, the lower house of ...

PARIS (AP) — For nearly two centuries after France abolished slavery, the colonial-era law that classified humans as property remained quietly in place. On Thursday, lawmakers will finally move to ...