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Joseph Chailley-Bert and the Importance of the Union Coloniale Française

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Stuart M. Persell
Stuart M. Persell
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California State College, San Bernardino
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The Historical Journal , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , March 1974 , pp. 176 - 184
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10 ‘We have admitted as axiomatic’, Chailley-Bert wrote in 1896, ‘that our colonies were conquered for our merchants and industrialists and that funds were accorded by deputies who believed that new markets would be opened to our products though expansion. The answer now to insure the prosperity of our merchants and industrialists is not to close off these markets but to develop colonial economies by large infusions of capital.’ (Oú en est la Politique coloniale de la France? (Paris, 1896), pp. 12–13.)Google Scholar

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