La France d’outre-mer

1. La France d’outre-mer Histoire, actualité, expérience personnelle

2. En groupes de 4 : Discutez de cequevousaveztrouvé sur le site du Ministère d’Outre-Mer La diversité de la France d’outre-mer

3. Histoire : De l’empireà la décolonisation A Tale of Four Colonies

4. The Drive to Colonize Considersome of the reasonswhy Europeans came to the Americas (and conversely, why they left Europe): The Spanish… The Dutch… The British... The French... Puritans… Germans, Scots-Irish, Italian, Polish, etc. …

5. The Drive to Colonize Considersome of the reasonswhy Europeans came to the Americas (and conversely, why they left Europe): The Spanish…Gold, missions, other resources The Dutch… Trading posts, plantations The British... Lumber, tobacco, other resources The French... Fur trading, exploration, missions Puritans… Freedom to practice their faith Germans, Scots-Irish, Italian, Polish, etc. … Opportunities to work and own land, escape oppression and famine in Europe

9. Algeria

10. Histoire : De l’empire à la décolonisation 1600 Catholicmissionaries arrive in whatwillbecomeFrench Indochina. 1635 French colonizationbegins in Guadeloupe. 1656 Three thousand African slaves make up one-fifth of the population in Guadeloupe. Louis XIV invests in the cultivation of sugar cane in the Antilles. 1659 France establishes Senegal’s first capital city, Saint- Louis, a major trading outpost for gold, ivory, gum arabic, and slaves.

11. Histoire : De l’empire à la décolonisation 1794 Chaos reigns in revolutionary France. Other European countries seize the opportunity to attack France, both on the continent and in the Caribbean. The ruler of Algiers, now the capital of Algeria,supplies famished France with wheat in a gesture of solidarity and friendship. The French National Convention abolishes slavery. 1803 Overextended by slave revolts in Haiti and impending war with Britain, France sells a large share of land for 3¢ an acre. The Louisiana purchase destroys Napoleon Bonaparte’s dreams of building a North American empire.

12. Histoire : De l’empire à la décolonisation 1830 France conquers Algeria using military force. 1896 France conquers the rest of what will become French Indochina. 1898 Rubber trees are planted in Indochina, and in a few years, the invention of the bicycle and the automobile make the rubber industry boom. 1945 Africans have fought for France in the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871), the Great War (1914-1919) and the Second World War (1939-1945), even though movements are already underway to gain independence from France. (Listen to Le Bataillionnaire)

13. Histoire : De l’empire à la décolonisation 1945-1956 France fights for and loses Indochina. 1954-1962 France fights for and loses Algeria. (Watch the trailer for La Batailled’Alger) 1959-1960 Senegal and French Sudan (Mali) join to form the Mali Federation, which peacefully gains independence from France in 1960 through the signing of an agreement to the transfer of powers. 2010 Guadeloupe votes in a referendum in favor of administrative simplification rather than autonomy. It exists as an overseas département of France, as well as an overseas région.

15. Départements, régions, pays and collectivités

16. From DOM-TOM toDROM-POM-COM DOM-TOM Départements, territoires d’outre-mer DROM Département et région d’outre-mer (5) POM Pays d’outre-mer (La Polynésie Française) COM Collectivité d’outre-mer (5) New Caledonia(La Nouvelle Calédonie) will vote in a referendum to decide whether or not to become a POM in 2014 or later. It is currently a sui generis collectivity.

17. Avant de regarder la vidéo What tourist destinations are popular among Americans, and why do you think people enjoy going there? Based on the cultural and historic information already covered in this lesson, how do you think the DROM-COM-POM are like American territories? How might they be different?

18. Pendant le visionnement • What do all of the DROM-COM have in common? • How do they differ from one another? • Why do the French like to spend their vacations in the DROM-COM?

19. What do all of the DROM-COM have in common? Il fait chaud. On parlefrançais. Les Français du métropole adorent passer leurs vacances dans les DROM-COM. On utilise l’euro. On chante la Marseillaise. La plupart des positions de responsabilité sont occupées par des blancs.

20. What do all of the DROM-COM have in common? Il fait chaud. On parlefrançais. Les Français du métropole adorent passer leurs vacances dans les DROM-COM. On utilise l’euro. On chante la Marseillaise. La plupart des positions de responsabilité sont occupées par des blancs.

21. How do they differ? Quelquesîlesutilisent le franc pacifique. Ilsont des cultures différentes. Quelquesîlesontleurpropresystème de défense. Wallis et Futuna ont des rois (kings). Saint-Barthélémy a des lois (laws) suédoises. La population de la Mayotte estmajoritairementmusulmane. La Polynésie Française est aussi un pays d’outre-mer.

22. How do they differ? Quelquesîlesutilisent le franc pacifique. Ilsont des cultures différentes. Quelquesîlesontleurpropresystème de défense. Wallis et Futuna ont des rois (kings). Saint-Barthélémy a des lois (laws) suédoises. La population de la Mayotte estmajoritairementmusulmane. La Polynésie Française est aussi un pays d’outre-mer.

23. Des vacances aux DROM-COM-POM Which DROM-COM would you most like to visit? Explain your choice.

24. Des vacances aux DROM-COM-POM Imagine that you and a friend are both spending your spring break in one of the DROM-COM-POM and you’ve promised to write each other postcards telling about your activities and your impressions of your destination.

25. Avant d’écrire • First, brainstorm the details of your trip (activities, weather, local festivals, how you felt when you arrived etc.) • Next think of questions to ask your friend about his or her vacation in a DROM-COM using the following structures • Avec qui est-ceque…? • Qu’est-ceque…? • Qu’est-ce qui…? • Oùest-ceque…? • Etc. • Écrivezvotre message, en répondantquxauestions.