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 | | Buoyed by the sacrifices that colonial populations had been enjoined to render France during the war, prominent imperial theorists earnestly drew up plans to develop the empire in a more systematic way, with the aim of realizing both its material and human potential. |
 | | Through this “civilizing effort,” wrote the Colonial Minister Albert Sarraut in a famous text from 1923, France was “shaping the face of a new humanity.”[2] Such schemes, however, did not amount to much in practice. |
 | | [2] Albert Sarraut, “France’s Dual Mandate,” in John D. Hargreaves, ed., France and West Africa: An Anthology of Historical Documents (London: MacMillan, 1969), 228. |
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