In a tribune '' Liberty for History '' , 19 historians ( including Élisabeth Badinter , Alain Decaux and Marc Ferro ) demanded the repeal of all " historic laws " : not only the 23 February 2005 Act , but also the 1990 Gayssot Act against " racism , xenophobia and historical revisionism " , the Taubira Act on the recognition of slavery as a " crime against humanity " , and the law recognizing the Armenian Genocide . Historians found this demand controversial . While many agreed that the state should not be determining history , few believed that the previous acts had to be repealed . Some opposed the Gayssot Act and other laws , but thought repealing them would be perceived as a kind of condemnation of the ideas
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
French law on colonialism