Movement (UMP), which required that teachers promote "positive values" of French presence abroad, "in particular in North Africa". The law was not only accused of interfering with the autonomy of Universities within the state, but also of being an obvious case of historical revisionism. The legislation was repealed by president Jacques Chirac in 2006 following criticisms in France from historians and the left-wing, and from abroad, including Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika and Négritude writer Aimé Césaire. Bibliography Major works (with C. Wihtol de Wenden), Les Citoyennetés en Révolution (1789-1794), PUF, 1992 (thesis –- preface of Madeleine Rebérioux) Les étrangers dans la cité. Expériences européennes, Paris, La Découverte, 1993 Le 17 octobre 1961 – Un crime d’État à Paris, collectif, Éditions La Dispute, 2001. Haine(s) – Philosophie et Politique, PUF, 2002 (preface by Étienne Balibar) (article on this book) Coloniser, Exterminer - Sur la guerre et l'Etat colonial, Fayard, 2005, (Table of contents) La République impériale. Politique et racisme d'Etat, Fayard, 2009. Douce France. Rafles. Rétentions. Expulsions, Seuil/Resf, 2009. De l'indigénat. Anatomie d'un "monstre" juridique:le droit colonial en Algérie et dans l'empire français, Zones/La Découverte, 2010. free access http://www.editions-zones.fr/spip.php?page=lyberplayer&id_article=113 Articles See also Colonialism French rule in Algeria Paris massacre of 1961 Sven Lindqvist, a Swedish author who also demonstrated links between colonialism and the Holocaust References 21st-century French historians Historians of colonialism Living people 1960 births French male non-fiction writers Academic staff of the University of Évry Val d'Essonne