Mémoire de L'Outre Mer 1
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Mémoire de L'Outre Mer

Zola, Nantes

⛵"Ce mât de la fraternité est fait pour la réconciliation" (Dieudonné Boutrin)
🪵Designed to evoke a sailboat with wooden and metal elements
📜Base features plaque with first article of human rights

This 18-meter luminous mast rises from Nantes' waterfront like a sailboat frozen mid-voyage, inaugurated in April 2026 as a bold symbol against racism and discrimination. The monument carries the weight of the city's colonial past: a descendant of slave ship owners offered an unprecedented apology for his ancestors' actions during the inauguration, a historic first in France.

anti-racism memorial
colonial history
Loire waterfront
student-built project
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