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Kadidiatou' Kouboura Daouda et al., « Ouest-Éclair (Rennes) et l'Empire colonial français de 1936 à 1939 », Outre-Mers. Revue d'histoire (documents), ID : 10.3406/outre.1982.2357
This study about the quantitative and qualitative editorial space devoted to the French colonial Empire in a great régional newspaper on the eve of World War II underlines the particular importance of the years 1937 and 1939. Above all, « Empire » meant Africa and the Middle East ; the deep praising treatment of colonization clearly expands through an insight that build the Empire as a strategic reserve which France could not miss. More hope than reality indeed.