A man walks past a statue of Voltaire, a leading thinker and writer of the French Enlightenment, who owed part of his fortune to colonial-era trade, Monday, June 22, 2020. Two statues related to France's colonial era were covered in graffiti Monday amid a global movement to take down monuments to figures tied to slavery or colonialism. (Photo by Rafael Yaghobzadeh/AP Photo)
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