February 23, 2005 Law
Thus, it comes as no wonder that Olivier LeCour Grandmaison was part of the historians who harshly criticized the February 23, 2005 law voted by the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), which demanded to teachers to teach the "positive values" of the French presence abroad, "in particular in North Africa". The law was not only accused of interfering with the autonomy of the University toward the state, but also of being an obvious case of historical revisionism. Confronted with intense criticisms, both from historians and the French left-wing and from abroad (e.g. president of Algeria Abdelaziz Bouteflika and Négritude writer Aimé Césaire), president Jacques Chirac finally had the controversial law repealed in 2006.
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