The Children Of Creuse
The Children of Creuse refers to 2,150 children forcibly moved from Réunion to rural metropolitan France between 1963 and 1982. It is well known in Reunion, where it is called the ''affaire des Enfants de la Creuse'' or ''affaire des Réunionnais de la Creuse''. These children, "abandoned or not", were declared by the French authorities of the Department for Health and Social Affairs to be wards of the state. They were transported by the authorities from Reunion, in order to repopulate metropolitan departments mostly in the empty diagonal such as Creuse, Tarn (department), Tarn, Gers, Lozère and Pyrénées-Orientales, East Pyrenees which had lost population to the movement from rural areas to metropolitan areas. This forcible transport of children was organized under the leadership of Michel Debré, MP for Reunion at the time. Some were adopted, others stayed in homes or served as slave labor on the farms; the peasants across the Creuse then using them as handymen or workers wit ...
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Réunion
Réunion (; french: La Réunion, ; previously ''Île Bourbon''; rcf, label= Reunionese Creole, La Rényon) is an island in the Indian Ocean that is an overseas department and region of France. It is located approximately east of the island of Madagascar and southwest of the island of Mauritius. , it had a population of 868,846. Like the other four overseas departments, Réunion also holds the status of a region of France, and is an integral part of the French Republic. Réunion is an outermost region of the European Union and is part of the eurozone. Réunion and the fellow French overseas department of Mayotte are the only eurozone regions located in the Southern Hemisphere. As in the rest of France, the official language of Réunion is French. In addition, a majority of the region's population speaks Réunion Creole. Toponymy When France took possession of the island in the seventeenth century, it was named Bourbon, after the dynasty that then ruled France. To break ...
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