Thank you to that couple from North Carolina I met in McDonalds yesterday. After our little chat about Kévi Dauna (@leparisnoir) the urge to do a research with ChatGPT resurfaces. Here are the results : VoyageonsLocal : Please give me a list with forty statues of black people that are in public spaces on Paris, France ChatGPT after a 2min17s search : Short answer: there aren’t forty statues of Black people in public space inside Paris proper today. Paris sadly has only a small handful. I don’t want to make things up for you—so here’s a vetted list of what you can actually see, with exact spots. If you’d like, I can broaden to the suburbs (Île-de-France) and add memorials/plaques to build you a 40-stop itinerary. Confirmed statues/busts of Black figures in public space (Paris intra-muros): Solitude (heroine of Guadeloupe’s 1802 revolt) — Jardin Solitude, on the lawns of Place du Général-Catroux (17ᵉ) . Statue by Didier Audrat, installed 2022, first statue of a Black woman ...
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