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Title: | Eighteenth Century French Policies Toward Senegal: The Ministry of Choiseul |
Author: | Boulle, Pierre H. |
Year: | 1970 |
Periodical: | Canadian Journal of African Studies |
Volume: | 4 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pages: | 305-320 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Senegal France |
Subjects: | colonial history colonization history 1700-1799 colonialism History and Exploration |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/484064 |
Abstract: | Historians distinguish between two French colonial empires. The first originated in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, blossomed under Colbert and his successors and collapsed in the Seven Years' War. The second was tacked on in the early 19th century to the tattered remains of its earlier counterpart, exploded its boundaries in the last quarter of the century and was displaced in the middle of the 20th century by the new nations of the Third World. In the case of the French, nowhere more than in West Africa did the difference between first and second empires appear. The historians of the second French colonial empire tended to regard the efforts of the 17th and 18th centuries in Africa as practically irrelevant to the successes of the late 19th. Yet, the break between the two empires in West Africa is not so marked as appears at first glance. A study of the policies and directives of the Duc de Choiseul, particularly between 1761 and 1770, shows that France merely hid its ambitions in the face of overwhelming British odds. Notes. |