Françoise Vergès, writer, historian, activist and public educator, walks us through the mise en scène of ‘the colonial triangle’ in the 12th Arrondissement in Paris. Between le Palais de la Porte Dorée (former Musée des Colonies, inaugurated in 1931 for the Exposition Coloniale Internationale in Paris), the Statue of Athena and le Monument Marchand, we discuss her new book with Seumboy Vrainom :€ called ‘De la violence coloniale dans l’espace public: Visite du triangle de la Porte Dorée à Paris’ (2021, Shed Publishing) which unveils the memorialisation of colonial violence and expeditions, imperialism, and extractivism on murals, museum walls, streets names and statues in the public space.