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Regeneration through empire : French pronatalists and colonial settlement in the Third Republic
\"Following France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870-71, French patriots feared that their country was in danger of becoming a second-rate power in Europe. Decreasing birth rates had largely slowed French population growth, and the country's population was not keeping pace with that of its European neighbors. To regain its standing in the European world, France set its sights on building a vast colonial empire while simultaneously developing a policy of pronatalism to reverse these demographic trends. Though representing distinct political movements, colonial supporters and pronatalist organizations were born of the same crisis and reflected similar anxieties concerning France's trajectory and position in the world. Regeneration through Empire explores the intersection between colonial lobbyists and pronatalists in France's Third Republic. Margaret Cook Andersen argues that as the pronatalist movement became more organized at the end of the nineteenth century, pronatalists increasingly understood their demographic crisis in terms that transcended the boundaries of the metropole and began to position the French empire, specifically its colonial holdings in North Africa and Madagascar, as a key component in the nation's regeneration. Drawing on an array of primary sources from French archives, Regeneration through Empire is the first book to analyze the relationship between depopulation and imperialism\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Regeneration through Empire
Following France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870-71, French patriots feared that their country was in danger of becoming a second-rate power in Europe. Decreasing birth rates had largely slowed French population growth, and the country's population was not keeping pace with that of its European neighbors. To regain its standing in the European world, France set its sights on building a vast colonial empire while simultaneously developing a policy of pronatalism to reverse these demographic trends. Though representing distinct political movements, colonial supporters and pronatalist organizations were born of the same crisis and reflected similar anxieties concerning France's trajectory and position in the world.
Regeneration through Empireexplores the intersection between colonial lobbyists and pronatalists in France's Third Republic. Margaret Cook Andersen argues that as the pronatalist movement became more organized at the end of the nineteenth century, pronatalists increasingly understood their demographic crisis in terms that transcended the boundaries of the metropole and began to position the French empire, specifically its colonial holdings in North Africa and Madagascar, as a key component in the nation's regeneration. Drawing on an array of primary sources from French archives,Regeneration through Empireis the first book to analyze the relationship between depopulation and imperialism.
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The Office de la Famille Française
This article explores the influence of Vichy's National Revolution in the empire by looking at the establishment of the Office de la Famille Française (FFO) in Morocco in 1941. The purpose of the FFO was to develop reforms aimed at assisting French families and increasing the French settler birthrate. The Residency, in consultation with settler familialist organizations, created this administrative body in the hopes that it would encourage French population growth, something they considered to be essential to the preservation of French interests in the protectorate. The FFO dispensed a variety of financial benefits to French families including birth incentives and marriage loans. All French citizens were obligated to join the FFO, thereby making the colony's French children a collective responsibility. Those who lacked sufficient numbers of qualifying French children were required to pay the familial compensation tax to help fund the FFO and in this way support other French families.
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France’s “Supreme Chance”
When Charles Richet, physician and co-founder of the Alliance nationale, wrote these words, he expressed the commonly held pronatalist belief that depopulation and colonial settlement represented two facets of a single dilemma. In order to resolve the depopulation crisis in the metropole, France needed a secure empire with viable settler colonies; in order to solidify and strengthen the French empire, France needed to produce adequate numbers of emigrants to settle the colonies. At first glance Richet’s equation of emigration with demographic strength would seem paradoxical. If emigration, by its very definition, suggests population loss, it would hardly seem logical for
Book Chapter
Recruiting Colonial Settlers
In the late nineteenth century, pronatalist propagandists frequently presented colonial settlement as a sign of demographic strength and repeated the claim that French settlers were more prolific than their metropolitan compatriots. Still, this support for colonial emigration aside, the reality was that relatively few French people actually migrated to the French empire. According to members of the Union coloniale française (UCF, French Colonial Union), two primary factors accounted for France’s meager supply of colonial settlers. The first, they maintained, was that the French government did not do enough to facilitate or promote migration to the colonies, a problem that could
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Creating a “Labor Reservoir”
In the decades following Dr. Ricoux’s publication, pronatalists projected their gendered anxieties about the French birthrate onto the empire, imagining Algeria and other settler colonies as ideal societies that lacked the decadence, sterility, and disorder of the metropole. In addition to envisioning utopic settler societies in the empire, pronatalists sought laws and programs in France that would decrease child mortality rates and encourage a higher birthrate. The perceived need to influence family-planning decisions became all the more acute at the end of the nineteenth century when the national census revealed that during four years in the 1890s (1890, 1891, 1892,
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Voting for the Family
Writing on the eve of World War I, pronatalist Fernand Boverat deplored the apparent failure of the French public to take the demographic crisis seriously. Boverat wrote that to many French people, the idea that France could “lose her colonies and a large portion of her territory [and] that she could even, within the next forty years, completely cease to exist as an independent nation, seems like an unreasonable absurdity.”¹ While France’s declining demographic growth had been a source of considerable concern since the birth of the Third Republic in 1870, French pronatalists appeared powerless in their efforts to reverse
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A Colonial Fountain of Youth
In a speech he gave in Algeria in 1907, Lyautey described North Africa as a vast domain offering France what the“le Far West”had offered Americans: energy, youthfulness, and fecundity.¹ His optimism, rarely seen in contemporary assessments of the metropolitan population, echoed the views of French pronatalists, who, beginning in the late nineteenth century, believed that establishing and maintaining settler colonies would aid their efforts to reduce demographic decline. Following the Great War, however, pronatalists became increasingly concerned that the settler population in North Africa had ceased to be as prolific as before and was in the throes of
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