Abstract
This chapter analyzes how a series of French laws, voted between 1999 and 2005, dealing with national history, raised many political debates. Labeled for the first time as “memory laws”, they pretended to repair and to re-interpret some controversial issues like the Algerian War, the denying of the Holocaust, or the definition of Genocide and crimes against humanity, especially in the case of the Armenian genocide or Slavery and Colonialism. These texts are seen here as a symptom of broader questions: the crisis of the so-called French “Republican model” and its difficulties to integrate different kind of memories from minorities; the way modern societies are dealing with the past and the idea to reshape and to “redress” it with contemporary ethical and moral purposes.
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