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But the opposite was true of the places that France had colonized.
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Indeed, during the 1920s and 1930s
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national identities would be formed outside France,
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throughout the French empire,
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in opposition to the French colonial project,
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as anti-colonial activists laid the roots for liberation movements
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that would ultimately tear down the French colonial empire
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in the years after the Second World War;
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and that's a subject for another lecture.
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Thanks very much.