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https://www.thepilule.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Flavicon-thepilule.png500500The debate over French colonisation sets deeply different readings of history against one another. One school of thought rejects any repentance, viewing apologies as serving contemporary political aims and calling for the colonial past to be separated from current identity issues.