There was an article written in Vice that was published today that piqued my interest. Back in 1994, 25 black men, women, and children from the Ivory Coast were hired and sent to the park for a 6-month stint in a re-created African village, sponsored by St. Michel. "Bambouland" as it was called, was a small African village with thatched roofs and clay huts that the performers built to live themselves. They were paid 1/4th the minimum wage in France at the time, had their passports and salaries revoked from them at several times, were forced to perform shirtless even in bad weather conditions, and some of the women even reported sexual abuse by their manager Salif Coulibaly. I'll link the article as well as a documentary that has aired in France titled Le village de Bamboula. Inside Bamboula's Village: The Last Human Zoo in 1990s France La France en Vrai - Pays de la Loire Le village de Bamboula
