Jean-Baptiste Colbert helped write the Code Noir or Black Code in the 17th Century which defined slavery and race in France's colonial empire. Footage posted on social media shows the activist ...

(As portrayed in Canada: A People's History) Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Secretary of State for Louis XIV's navy, dreamt of making his country the dominant European power and mother country of a great ...

Adama Traoré, a young black man from the Paris suburbs who died in police custody four years ago; and Jean-Baptiste Colbert, a white aristocrat from the 17th Century who managed the country's ...

Small businesses - particularly those in retail and hospitality - worry that the increase in employers' National Insurance payments and a rise in the minimum wage will squeeze profits and push them ...