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Cayenne, Guyane française
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Monument to Victor Schœlcher, Cayenne The monument depicts Victor Schœlcher raising his right arm to the sky, “showing, on the horizon, incipient liberty” (inauguration speech by the Governor of French Guiana) and wrapping his left arm, in a paternalistic gesture, around the shoulders of a young black man dressed in a loincloth, wearing broken chains on his feet. With his hand over his heart, the young man looks gratefully at Schœlcher.