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I don't know all the European countries, but I'm pretty France didn't make any money from its colonies.

eesmith 7y ago
None from slavery and sugar? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_colonial_empire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_colonial_empire > As the French empire in North America grew, the French also began to build a smaller but more profitable empire in the West Indies. ... France's most important Caribbean colonial possession was established in 1664, when the colony of Saint-Domingue (today's Haiti) was founded on the western half of the Spanish island of Hispaniola. In the 18th century, Saint-Domingue grew to be the richest sugar colony in the Caribbean. No money from Asia? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Indochina https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Indochina > The principal reasons why French settlement did not grow in a manner similar to that in French North Africa (which had a population of over 1 million French civilians) were because French Indochina was seen as a colonie d'exploitation économique (economic colony) rather than a colonie de peuplement ... > Funding for the colonial government came by means of taxes on locals and the French government established a near monopoly on the trade of opium, salt and rice alcohol. The French administration established quotas of consumption for each Vietnamese village, thereby compelling villagers to purchase and consume set amounts of these monopolised goods. https://alphahistory.com/vietnamwar/french-colonialism-in-vietnam/ https://alphahistory.com/vietnamwar/french-colonialism-in-vi... > Indochina became one of France’s most lucrative colonial possessions. ... The real motive for French colonialism was profit and economic exploitation. French imperialism was driven by a demand for resources, raw materials and cheap labour. The development of colonised nations was scarcely considered, except where it happened to benefit French interests. Or, https://portside.org/2014-02-06/france-forces-africa-pay-colonialism https://portside.org/2014-02-06/france-forces-africa-pay-col... > When Sékou Touré of Guinea decided in 1958 to get out of french colonial empire, and opted for the country independence, the french colonial elite in Paris got so furious, and in a historic act of fury the french administration in Guinea destroyed everything in the country which represented what they called the benefits from french colonization. ... > Sylvanus Olympio, the first president of the Republic of Togo, a tiny country in west Africa, found a middle ground solution with the French. ... agree to pay an annual debt to France for the so called benefits Togo got from french colonization. ... the amount estimated by France was so big that the reimbursement of the so called "colonial debt" was close to 40% of the country budget in 1963. ... On January 13, 1963, three days after he started printing his country own currency, a squad of illiterate soldiers backed by France killed the first elected president of newly independent Africa. ... > It's such an evil system even denounced by the European Union, but France is not ready to move from that colonial system which puts about 500 billions dollars from Africa to its treasury year in year out. ... > Former French President Jacques Chirac recently spoke about the African nations money in France banks. Here is a video of him speaking about the french exploitation scheme. He is speaking in French, but here is a short excerpt transcript: "We have to be honest, and acknowledge that a big part of the money in our banks come precisely from the exploitation of the African continent." Etc.
- baud147258 7y ago
  Regarding portside, that's totally not a biased source "Our mission at Portside is to provide information that empowers the left". And with some unsourced informations that's laughable.

None from slavery and sugar? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_colonial_empire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_colonial_empire > As the French empire in North America grew, the French also began to build a smaller but more profitable empire in the West Indies. ... France's most important Caribbean colonial possession was established in 1664, when the colony of Saint-Domingue (today's Haiti) was founded on the western half of the Spanish island of Hispaniola. In the 18th century, Saint-Domingue grew to be the richest sugar colony in the Caribbean. No money from Asia? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Indochina https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Indochina > The principal reasons why French settlement did not grow in a manner similar to that in French North Africa (which had a population of over 1 million French civilians) were because French Indochina was seen as a colonie d'exploitation économique (economic colony) rather than a colonie de peuplement ... > Funding for the colonial government came by means of taxes on locals and the French government established a near monopoly on the trade of opium, salt and rice alcohol. The French administration established quotas of consumption for each Vietnamese village, thereby compelling villagers to purchase and consume set amounts of these monopolised goods. https://alphahistory.com/vietnamwar/french-colonialism-in-vietnam/ https://alphahistory.com/vietnamwar/french-colonialism-in-vi... > Indochina became one of France’s most lucrative colonial possessions. ... The real motive for French colonialism was profit and economic exploitation. French imperialism was driven by a demand for resources, raw materials and cheap labour. The development of colonised nations was scarcely considered, except where it happened to benefit French interests. Or, https://portside.org/2014-02-06/france-forces-africa-pay-colonialism https://portside.org/2014-02-06/france-forces-africa-pay-col... > When Sékou Touré of Guinea decided in 1958 to get out of french colonial empire, and opted for the country independence, the french colonial elite in Paris got so furious, and in a historic act of fury the french administration in Guinea destroyed everything in the country which represented what they called the benefits from french colonization. ... > Sylvanus Olympio, the first president of the Republic of Togo, a tiny country in west Africa, found a middle ground solution with the French. ... agree to pay an annual debt to France for the so called benefits Togo got from french colonization. ... the amount estimated by France was so big that the reimbursement of the so called "colonial debt" was close to 40% of the country budget in 1963. ... On January 13, 1963, three days after he started printing his country own currency, a squad of illiterate soldiers backed by France killed the first elected president of newly independent Africa. ... > It's such an evil system even denounced by the European Union, but France is not ready to move from that colonial system which puts about 500 billions dollars from Africa to its treasury year in year out. ... > Former French President Jacques Chirac recently spoke about the African nations money in France banks. Here is a video of him speaking about the french exploitation scheme. He is speaking in French, but here is a short excerpt transcript: "We have to be honest, and acknowledge that a big part of the money in our banks come precisely from the exploitation of the African continent." Etc.

baud147258 7y ago
Regarding portside, that's totally not a biased source "Our mission at Portside is to provide information that empowers the left". And with some unsourced informations that's laughable.