France's territory belonged to the European continent, and historically he was also "addicted" to competing for control of the European continent, fighting with Britain, fighting Austria, and after the decline of Austria, he fought with Prussia and its successor Germany.
In the great wave of navigation that followed, although France's national strength was strong, but hindered by the "temper" of its own continental countries, it never established an "empire that never sets" comparable to Britain. But the great powers are always great powers, and overseas the French do have their own colonies.
And because the French ruled the colonies in a way that was fully assimilated, operating the colonies as if they were their new land, rather than just assimilating the elite as in Britain, and controlling the colonies through indirect rule. So France's control over the colonies had always been slightly stronger than that of Britain.
The most intuitive example is that after the end of World War II, the British colonies watched the suzerainty of Britain fall down tiredly, and they all did the work of falling down the mountain. Meetings of various forms were held to convey to the outside world that it was an independent country and was no longer part of British colonial rule.
Although France also has colonial independence, from the perspective of France's final retention rate, it has a great advantage over britain, such as French Guiana, which is left by France, which currently has an area of 86,504 and a population of 239,450. On the British side, almost all of them are small islands or places where no one can survive, Anguilla in the United Kingdom, with an area of 96 square kilometers and a population of 13,452 people (2013).
Although the French colonies were not independent, they had greater changes in customs and skin color than in mainland France, which is not the French martinique today, the population is not dominated by white people in mainland France, but black and white.
As for why so many "mixed races" appeared, we have to turn the time to 1635, when Pierre Belaind'Esnambus, then the French colonial governor, set up military facilities in the area to monitor the Indians who had ill intentions toward the area. It was also during this period that the French declared sovereignty over Martinique.
But in fact, from a historical point of view, this behavior of the French is somewhat inappropriate. Because martinique's earliest European discoverer, his name was Columbus, in 1502, came to today's martinique.
And Columbus announced that these explored lands belonged to his supporters, the Spanish royal family, but the Spanish royal family may have too much land and forgot about it.
At the same time, the French began to build a plantation in Martinique, but due to insufficient manpower, the French began their own way of introducing black slaves. Incomplete statistics In 1783, the number of black slaves increased to 60,000, becoming one of the mainstream populations in Martinique (385,551 million in 2013).
When France announced the abolition of slavery, Martinique suddenly became a place where blacks, whites, and Indians coexisted. Among them, the Indians were the least popular group because of the wanton killings carried out after the arrival of the French, and the whites and blacks were barely a standard.
But as time passed, the dividing line between whites and blacks, the main population in Martinique, began to blur, and eventually mixed blacks and whites became the dominant population.
At the same time, with the rise of the wave of colonial independence, France feared that its colonies would change, and in 1946, martinique's administrative status was guaranteed, and martinique became a French overseas province. In 1977, Martinique rose to the next level and became a region of France.
At the same time, in order to make France more attractive, Martinique has two seats in the French Senate and four seats in the French National Assembly.