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In page Joséphine de Beauharnais:

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In 1859, French Emperor Napoleon III commissioned a statue of Joséphine, which was installed in the La Savane park in downtown Fort-de-France. In 1991, the statue was symbolically decapitated and spattered with red paint. The acts of vandalism were done on the belief that Joséphine had influenced her husband to issue the Law of 20 May 1802, which reinstated slavery in the French colonial empire (including Martinique).[citation needed] The statue was never repaired by the city administration, and every year more red paint was added to it.[citation needed] In July 2020, the statue was torn down and destroyed by rioters in the wake of the George Floyd protests.[1]