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L'Humanite
02-09-2017, 07:30 AM
By Claude Ribbe, writer and director, author of Une Autre Histoire (2016, le cherche midi editeur).
On Sunday 28 August 2016, in Sablé-sur-Sarthe, at the chateau's park, François Fillon, the center and rightist candidate in the 2017 presidential election, has chosen to revise the commonly accepted definition of colonization and to clear France of responsibility for the practice of state sponsored slavery, stating emphatically: "No, France is not culpable for having shared its culture with the (...)
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