PARIS — Additional than a century soon after French colonial troops ransacked a West African royal palace and took its treasures, President Emmanuel Macron of France on Wednesday began the formal transfer of 26 of those people artifacts to Benin in the to start with massive-scale act of restitution to Africa by a previous European colonial electrical power. Mr. Macron spoke at a ceremony at the Quai Branly Museum in Paris, in which the objects are on show for the past time, via Oct. 31. The president will full the transfer in a signing ceremony with President Patrice Talon of Benin at the Élysée Palace, immediately after which the treasures…