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This chapter highlights metropolitan re-imaginings of the French as inheritors of both Roman builders of empire and colonized Gauls, after the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War. On the ground, this translated as a reordering of the colony toward a system of transport of both people and goods, administrators engineering landscapes to pacify regions, using the “civilizing roadway” and “association” to assuage anxieties both at home and in the colony. As roads became integral parts of the new regime, travel writing also became part of the official propaganda. This chapter focuses in particular on the figure of Albert Sarraut, Governor General, instigator of the road-building project, and future Minister of the Colonies.
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Ponsavady, S. (2018). Paving the Way: Road and Empire Builders. In: Cultural and Literary Representations of the Automobile in French Indochina. Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94559-0_2
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