The exhibition Benin: the Restitution of 26 Works from the Royal Treasures of Abomey at Musée du quai Branly–Jacques Chirac will be on view for five days in October

As the Black Lives Matter movement goes global, museums face renewed demands to restitute artefacts plundered from Africa

Five demonstrators will go to court on charges of theft

The politician, who also served as prime minister and Paris mayor, championed the founding of the Musée du Quai Branly