FALLEN ICON : KING LOUIS XIV

One more icon of my youth has fallen! "Le Roi Soleil" --King Louis XIV--whom we had learned to praise in Mrs. Ferry's French class in 7th grade at Steger Junior High School, has just fallen in one fact: "King Louis XIV originally issued the Black Code or 'Code Noir' in March 1685 as slave law for the French West Indies, but as slavery in French America expanded, it was applied elsewhere." P.27, "The Code Noir," BONDAGE IN EGYPT by Darrel Dexter (2011)