프랑스 기억문화와 탈식민 운동：“페데르브는 무너져야 한다(Faidherbe doit tomber)” 단체의 활동을 중심으로 = French Memory Culture and the Decolonization Movement：Focusing on the activities of the group “Faidherbe Must Fall”

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This paper examines the statue of General Louis Faidherbe and the French memory culture surrounding it. In particular, it examines the French people’s position on the legacy of colonialism, focusing on the resistance movement against this monument. To this end, it first examines the life of Louis Faidherbe, focusing on his colonial career and colonial ideology. It examines how an ordinary young man from Lille, France, became a young soldier during the conquest of Algeria and a ‘peacemaker’ in Senegal, and how he, a ‘colonialism expert’ and ‘racist ideologue’, became a symbol of the ‘colonial republic’. The next chapter is devoted to the discussion and process of the production of the equestrian statue erected in Lille to commemorate him, as well as an introduction to the statue itself. In addition, it examines how the ‘memory work’ on Faidherbe, which began immediately after his death, was carried out. The final chapter examines the critique of the ‘colonial dimension’ of the Faidherbe statue since 2018, focusing on the activities of the group “Faidherbe Must Fall”. In particular, it examines the meaning and impact of their efforts to denounce the silence of French colonial history, to raise awareness of the meaning of the statue as an embodiment of dominant relations, and to call on public institutions to remove or fundamentally transform the Faidherbe statue. Through all of this, we considered how the act of subverting the symbol of colonialism could contribute to achieving both material and spiritual decolonization.