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

Jean-Pierre Dormois and François Crouzet

Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, 1998, vol. 16, issue 1, 323-349

Abstract: 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.

Date: 1998
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