[dog breath]

France was always incompetent as a colonial power. Their governance was often brutal and racist. They tried to rule by a process of assimilation, making the subject people second rate French. Yet this was based on a assumption that the French culture was superior to all others. While professing fraternity and equality they never really believed the subject people were their equal. They often did little to improve the lands that they ruled and when independence was achieved most of their former colonies were in miserable condition. I have noticed that in the early twentieth century they tried to go to a more administrative British model but the problem was that they were bad administrators. While being under the rule of any colonial power was not desirable, I have always felt that the French were the most pathetic of the bunch. The British for example were much better soldiers and administrators. Even the brutal Spanish didn't pretend to be anything other then the conquistadors that they were. The French always seemed to be posturing and incapable of protecting their colonial subjects.

[Cicero]

Not only were the colonial administrators brutal and racist, but at the same time France taught African intellectuals the glories of Communism. Numerous bright young Africans attended French universities and returned to their countries as Communist subversives.

The most famous example of the evil results of French education on colonial students, however, is Pol Pot. It was France which taught him to exterminate his own people.