French colonial rule was handed over to a cosy coalition, which became the Socialist Party.
Ms. WOODS: What he's saying is that French colonial efforts have been at play in Africa since, really, the 1800s.
Vientiane, as I had heard, was beautiful and romantic ten years ago, a mix of French Colonial architecture and temples with quiet, leafy streets.
The 20, 248-square-foot French colonial sits atop a hill and behind a gate, hidden by greenery and steep rocks that bolster its front decks.
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The shelter provided a unique glimpse into the hotel's incarnation as a government-run wartime guesthouse -- a world away from the opulence of its French colonial heyday.
The move marks the determination of President Marc Ravalomanana's government to underscore the island nation's economic independence 43 years after it broke free from French colonial rule.
His aspirations foundered on the rocks of British and French colonial ambition, notably the twin reefs of the notorious Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916 and the Balfour Declaration of 1917.
The reader can almost hear the parachute canopies cracking open as Operation Castor begins on November 20th 1953, when the airborne elite of the French colonial army was first parachuted into the valley of Dien Bien Phu.
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He nurtured French post-colonial-era ties with the Arab world and Africa.
Rouch meets with white colonial French high-school students and their black African classmates (all nonactors) as he persuades them to improvise a drama about efforts to bring the two mutually wary groups together socially.
At the same time, France's "subjective" interests cannot be overlooked -- especially when the French "post-colonial paradox" comes into play.
In 2005 there was even an attempt to force French schools to teach pupils about "the positive role of the French presence overseas" during the colonial era.
Trips start in Hanoi, where guests explore the city's famed markets, colonial architecture, historical sites and French-influenced restaurants.
Colonial sentiment or not, the French plan is to hand off Mali to U.N. and African forces and exit completely after elections in July.
Leaving behind this city of Buddhist temples and delicious French pastries (one of the few reminders of the colonial era) the river winds its way through a landscape dominated by forested sugar-loaf mountains that in places rise vertiginously from the river.
Vietnam has turned down a request to scatter the ashes of a French war veteran at the site of a battle which helped end colonial rule by France.
The French take a special interest in protecting their influence in Lebanon, a former colonial holding.
Nor does the film ever confront the post- colonial questions that hover over the Algerian villagers' dependence on the French monks.
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Pittsburgh-based architect Lewko Korzeniwsky recently finished turning the traditional, Colonial-style floor plan of an old 4, 600-square-foot French Normandy mansion into an open, contemporary interior, reducing the number of bedrooms to four from six and introducing floor-to-ceiling glass windows and recessed lighting.
At the same time, French governments are reluctant to intervene in these countries precisely because France wishes to avoid looking like a colonial master.
Under Mr. Hollande and his two predecessors, the French government has attempted to transition out of a paternalistic role that is the legacy of centuries of colonial rule.
Once a constitutional government is restored, France -- the former colonial power in Mali -- will resume military and civil cooperation with Mali, according to the French foreign ministry.
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