Ruis in de loftrompet. Reportages als aanzet tot een Frans koloniaal debat in het interbellum?

The years 1930-1931, when the famous international colonial exhibition in Vincennes was held, can be considered as the heyday of French colonialism. In these years of colonial consensus, not many newspapers dared to publish „anticolonial‟ articles. In 1930, Le Petit Parisien, the biggest and most influential newspaper of France, published a report by Louis Roubaud that was critical of the French colonisation of Indochina. This was not the only critical newspaper report of that time. On the contrary, the genre had been quite popular since the First World War. To guarantee readership, the report... Mehr ...