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often through advertising.
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One of the most famous French advertisements ever,
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for example, is the publicity for Banania,
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a sweet powdered beverage made from bananas
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that when mixed with milk makes a breakfast food.
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The yellow Banania box featured a derogatory caricature of
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a smiling African uttering the pigeon phrase in French,
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"y'a bon Banania," "good stuff Banania."
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Things like this brought the empire
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all the way to the breakfast tables of many French families.
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French people even began to encounter the empire in church.
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The last third of the nineteenth century was a time of