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For android instal Liberte2/20/2024 In 1791, the Constituent Assembly decided to turn the monument into the Panthéon, and to make its crypt the last resting place of the nation’s great men and women. The Pantheon, originally the Sainte Geneviève church, was designed by the architect Jacques-Germain Soufflot between 1764-1790, under Louis XV of France. Toussaint Louverture, a freed slave and the leader of the Saint-Domingue colony (present-day Haiti) by François Cauvin, 2009, Acrylic on canvas. He failed to do so and Saint-Domingue achieved its independence on the battlefield and became Haiti in 1804. However Napoleon Bonaparte, who had major colonial ambitions in the Americas, decided to depose Louverture. Toussaint Louverture, the man who lead the uprising in Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti) in 1791, was both the instigator and the icon of the concept of “universal freedom”, that the First French Republic was trying to establish. “Dare to Seek Freedom” ( Oser la Liberté) is a presentation of archival documents and photos shedding new light on the people who fought slavery, which spanned four centuries and involved three continents.Ĭreated jointly by the Centre for National Monuments (CMN) and the Foundation for Slavery Rememberance, it shines a light on colonial France’s role in slavery and the long fight for freedom.Īlthough the French revolution of 1789 brought with it the “Declaration of the Rights of Man”, it would take another revolution to put an end to the slave trade in 1831, and yet another to finally abolish slavery, in 1848.
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