Camp de Thiaroye
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Camp de Thiaroye is a 1988 Senegalese war-drama film written and directed by Ousmane Sembène and Thierno Faty Sow. It depicts the Thiaroye massacre, which occurred on the morning of December 1, 1944 i
Italian theatrical release poster
Censorship in France
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France has a long history of governmental censorship, particularly in the 16th to 20th centuries, but today freedom of press is guaranteed by the French Constitution and instances of governmental cens
Camp de Thiaroye
…scholars as an important historical documentation of the Thiaroye massacre, playing a role in bringing the event back into public memory. The film was banned in France for a decade and censored in Senegal as well. A Senegalese platoon of soldiers from the French Free Army are returned from combat in France and held for a temporary…
Nemours' cahiers de doléances asking for the end of censorship, 1789. French National Archives
A censor's approval in a play printed in Paris in 1746, De Boissy's Le Medecin par Occasion