caa a22 4500 388052538 CHVBK 20180307125057.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199803 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S021261090000714X doi S021261090000714X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S021261090000714X The Significance of the French Colonial Empire for French Economic Development (1815-1960) [Elektronische Daten] 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. Copyright © Instituto Figuerola de Historia y Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid 1998 Dormois Jean-Pierre Université de Montpellier-III Crouzet François Université de Paris-IV Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History Cambridge University Press 16/1(1998-03), 323-349 0212-6109 16:1<323 1998 16 RHE https://doi.org/10.1017/S021261090000714X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S021261090000714X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Dormois Jean-Pierre Université de Montpellier-III NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Crouzet François Université de Paris-IV NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History Cambridge University Press 16/1(1998-03), 323-349 0212-6109 16:1<323 1998 16 RHE CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge