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Dramatic failure. Colonial tragedy. Health disaster. There is no shortage of descriptions to stigmatize the Kourou expedition. In Guiana, the Ancien Regime dreamed of establishing a free, White colony, the first Caribbean colony to function without slavery. Cayenne was to be the last, “new” France, a bulwark against the overwhelming British domination of North America. History, however, has only retained the vagaries of a State affair that inextricably linked Turgot and Choiseul.
Cayenne has long been on my mind; it is the earth’s most beautiful country to found a colony. Napoleon, quoted by Thiers1
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Godfroy, M.F. (2015). Conclusion. In: Kourou and the Struggle for a French America. War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137363473_13
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