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Losing colonies, dreaming of settler ones: M. Godfroy, Kourou and the Struggle for a French America, Palgrave 2015

12Oct16

Description: Kourou was to be a wonderful revenge, a French colony in America after the Seven Years War in 1763. However, the fantastic ideal became a grand failure and political disaster, marking the end of the French attempts for an American colony.

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