Restitution of royal treasures "it is a victory for the new dialogue between Benin and France"
Statuettes from Benin (16th and 17th century), exhibited at the Quai Branly Museum in Paris, October 2, 2007. AFP - OLIVIER LABAN-MATTEI
By: Charlotte Derouin
A ceremony chaired by Emmanuel Macron is being held this Wednesday, October 27 at the Quai Branly museum which houses thousands of African works partly looted during colonization.
Advertising
This ceremony is the occasion to announce the imminent restitution in Benin of 26 works of the royal treasures of Abomey.
A very symbolic first.
Royal statues to protect the army, wooden doors and dance sticks, precious testimonies of the kingdom that reigned in the 18th and 19th centuries over what is now southern Benin, are some of his works.
To talk about it Marie-Cécile Zinsou, art historian and president of the Zinsou foundation.
Newsletter
Receive all international news directly in your mailbox
I subscribe
Follow all the international news by downloading the RFI application
google-play-badge_FR
Benign
Arts
France
Emmanuel Macron
On the same subject
Guest Africa
JM Abimbola: the restitution of these Beninese works of art "is only the beginning"
Morning guest
Return to Benin of the royal treasures of Abomey: "A great joy", according to the president of the Quai Branly museum
Restitution of works of art in Benin: President Talon announced in France on November 9