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“The objects were shown in the context of colonial history, which was a complete departure from what had been the policy of the Quai Branly Museum until then — to ignore the colonial dimension altogether,” said Benoît de l’Estoile, a professor of anthropology at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris who published a book about the museum in 2007.

“Emmanuel Kasarhérou’s appointment is a very interesting symbol: the fact that he belongs to several worlds, and represents this complex and shared colonial and postcolonial history,” said Mr. de l’Estoile.

He modernized the museum, and presented New Caledonia “as an island with a history, including a colonial history,” said Mr. de l’Estoile.

See the memoirs and chronicles of l’Estoile, Villeroy, Ph. Hurault de Cheverny, Brant�me, Marguerite de Valois, la Huguerye, du Plessis-Mornay, &c.;

I. to Sir Robert Sackville, the noble descendants of that personage still bear an estoile, or star, as their crest.