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		</div><p>Two Paris statues related to France’s colonial era were daubed with red paint amid a global movement to take down monuments to figures tied to slavery or colonialism.</p>
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<p>One statue was of Hubert Lyautey, near the gold-domed Invalides monument that houses Napoleon’s tomb.</p>
<p>Lyautey served in Morocco, Algeria, Madagascar and Indochina when they were under French control, and later was France’s minister of war during the First World War.</p>
<figure id="attachment_157629" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-157629" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-157629" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/D3BA5CFF-D22E-4BE2-9838-767438582283.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="400" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-157629" class="wp-caption-text">The statue of Hubert Lyautey</figcaption></figure>
<p>The other figure drenched in red shows Voltaire, a leading thinker and writer of the French Enlightenment, who owed part of his fortune to colonial-era trade.</p>
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<p>The action came amid growing demands by anti-racism activists in several countries to take down monuments that honour prominent historical figures who played a role in the slave trade or colonialism, in the wake of global protests sparked by the May 25 death in the US of George Floyd.</p>
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