The wake of her losses overseas, France started
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2025 8:12 am
Independence was to prove a luxury which the Corsicans would not long be permitted to enjoy. Their desire for autonomy carried little weight in the face of the amibitions of European monarchies, the government of Louis XIV in particular. In on a Mediterranean strategy which included the control of Corsica, which was duly taken from Genoa, which had not relinquished official claim to the island. In 1796, after the instauration of a short-lived Anglo-Corse kingdom, the island was declared to be an integral part of French territory and the history of outside domination began again. Henceforward the history of the island was linked to the history of France.
Paris imposed a policy of integration and did not phone number list recognise the specific character of the island or its people. (Himself born in Corsica and only born French by a matter of years, Napoleon Bonaparte proposed to register Corsican children every year in Parisian schools as a means of eliminating a sense of Corsican identity.) The island fell into neglect, ravaged by local divisions which were the breeding ground of banditry and vendettas. The modernisation and construction plans of Napoleon III were insufficient to bring any fundamental change.
"Kalliste" did not take part in the Industrial Revolution and little by little enclosed itself in an archaic way of life. At the turn of the twentieth century unemployment forced thousands of people, mostly young, to seek their fortune on the continent or in the colonies. It was the time of the great Corsican diaspora. Emigration and losses in the Great War meant that by 1939 the total population of the island had sunk to 200,000.
Paris imposed a policy of integration and did not phone number list recognise the specific character of the island or its people. (Himself born in Corsica and only born French by a matter of years, Napoleon Bonaparte proposed to register Corsican children every year in Parisian schools as a means of eliminating a sense of Corsican identity.) The island fell into neglect, ravaged by local divisions which were the breeding ground of banditry and vendettas. The modernisation and construction plans of Napoleon III were insufficient to bring any fundamental change.
"Kalliste" did not take part in the Industrial Revolution and little by little enclosed itself in an archaic way of life. At the turn of the twentieth century unemployment forced thousands of people, mostly young, to seek their fortune on the continent or in the colonies. It was the time of the great Corsican diaspora. Emigration and losses in the Great War meant that by 1939 the total population of the island had sunk to 200,000.