Benin will benefit from $42 million in French funding for cultural projects, including the establishment of the museum to house cultural property held abroad. The financing agreement was signed on Thursday, June 3, between the French Development Agency (AFD) and the Beninese Ministry of Economy and Finance. Since 2016, negotiations between France and Benin have focused on the repatriation of cultural property looted during French colonization. The government has rightly launched a book called the Museum of the Epic of the Amazons and the Kings of Danhome and the promotion of the Abomey palatial site. This infrastructure is intended to accommodate Beninese cultural heritage properties plundered during the colonial period, and whose return has been the subject of negotiations between Cotonou and Paris for several years. Thus, French funding consists of a donation and a loan, the funds aim, among other things, to finance the construction of the Museum of the Epic of the Amazons and the Kings of Danhomè, which will house the 26 works dating from the era of the former Kingdom of