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The Significance of the French Colonial Empire for French Economic Development (1815–1960)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2010

Jean-Pierre Dormois  and
François Crouzet
Jean-Pierre Dormois
Affiliation:
Université de Montpellier-III
François Crouzet
Affiliation:
Université de Paris-IV
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In May 1940, among panic-stricken ministers and politicians, General de Gaulle was virtually alone to reflect and proclaim that France was not vanquished as long as it retained its colonial empire, which would serve as the springboard for France's future liberation and status as a world power. Not many of his contemporaries shared his conviction, and his loneliness testifies to the detachment of public opinion and politicians vis-a-vis an empire which in extent ranked second only to the British. In spite of the headlines, newsreels, slogans, colonial exhibitions and propaganda, most Frenchmen would have probably agreed that, over the years, the mother country had spent more on its colonies than it had received.

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Articles-Artículos: Part 3. The Second Epoch: Liberal Imperialism and Decolonization, 1846–1974
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Revista de Historia Economica - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History , Volume 16 , Issue 1: The costs and benefits of european imperialism from the conquest of Ceuta, 1415, to the treaty of Lusaka, 1974. Twelfth International Economic History Congress. Madrid 1998 , March 1998 , pp. 323 - 349
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Copyright © Instituto Figuerola de Historia y Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid 1998

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