The micro-mosaic "Napoleon Coming out of his Tomb, 1869" by De Rossi from Horace Vernet (1788-1863) is displayed in the Musee de l'Armee (Army Museum) at the Hotel des Invalides in Paris, France, April 27, 2021. REUTERS/Sarah Meyssonnier
REUNION ISLAND, France (Reuters) - When France commemorates the bicentenary of Napoleon Bonaparte's death on May 5, Aurelie Ramassamy will remember a tyrant who reversed the abolition of slavery rather than an emperor often lionized as a hero for his battlefield triumphs.
Like most Creoles on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion, one of France's overseas departments, Ramassamy is a descendant of slaves. Family folklore says her mother's ancestors were shipped to the island to labour on its coffee and sugar plantations.
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