Dominique Taffin says Napoleon shouldn’t just be put on a pedestal but studied and questioned Image: Louise Allavoine/Foundation for the Remembrance of Slavery A major crime or a minor story? The foundation was responsible for that section of the exhibition: 'We decided it was necessary to raise awareness about this dark part of his deeds to a wider audience,' added Taffin. There is this glory about Napoleon which has eclipsed everything else he did,' Dominique Taffin, director of the Foundation for the Remembrance of Slavery, told DW. 'When they hear of Napoleon, most people think of the great empire, France's many victories during the wars of that era.
It made France the only country to have brought back slavery after outlawing it. It features the original copies of laws signed by Napoleon in 1802, which reversed the abolition of slavery that had been declared eight years previously, in the wake of the French Revolution.
