France–Trinidad and Tobago relations

French-Trinidadian relations
Map indicating locations of France and Trinidad and Tobago

France
Trinidad and Tobago

Bilateral relations between the countries of France and Trinidad and Tobago have existed for about two hundred years.[1] Currently, France has an embassy in Port of Spain. Trinidad and Tobago is represented in France through its embassy in Brussels (Belgium). Trinidad and Tobago also has bilateral investment agreements with France.[2]

Colonial history

France colonized Tobago during the seventeenth century.[3] France occupied the colony from August 1666 to March 1667. On 6 December 1677, the French destroyed the Dutch colony and claimed the entire island, before restoring it to the Dutch by the first Treaty of Nijmegen on 10 August 1678. In 1751, the French settled colonists on the island, but ceded it to Britain in the Treaty of Paris of 10 February 1763.[4] Nevertheless, most "of the settlers were French, and French influence became dominant."[5] It was again a French colony from 2 June 1781 to 15 April 1793,[6] nominally part of the Lucie département of France from 25 October 1797 to 19 April 1801, and once again a French colony from 30 June 1802 to 30 June 1803.[citation needed]

Cultural legacy

By the later 1790s, the white upper class on Trinidad "consisted mainly of French creoles", which created "a powerful French cultural influence in Trinidad. This was expressed not only in the widespread use of French Patois (French-lexicon Creole)...but also in the general population's enthusiasm for the Catholic tradition of Carnival."[7] Sean Sheehan explains further that for "about a hundred years, the language spoken in Trinidad and Tobago was a pidgin form of French, which was basically French with Twi or Yoruba words included. Even today, there is a strong element of French in Trini, and in some rural areas, people speak a language that is closer to French than to English."[8]

Resident diplomatic missions

  • France has an embassy in Port of Spain.
  • Trinidad and Tobago is accredited to France from its embassy in Brussels, Belgium.

See also

Notes and references

  1. ^ Sahadeo Basdeo; Graeme Mount (2001). The Foreign Relations of Trinidad and Tobago (1962–2000). Lexicon. ISBN 976-631-023-8. The French presence in Trinidad and Tobago dates back two centuries. It is not surprising that French influence ...
  2. ^ World trade and arbitration materials v. 11, nos. 1–3 (Werner Pub. Co., 1999), 24.
  3. ^ Vincent Huyghes-Belrose, "The Colonization Of Tobago By France : Bibliographical And Archival Material In France, Martinique And Guadeloupe Archived 27 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine," Montray Kréyol (30 March 2008).
  4. ^ "A Brief History of Trinidad & Tobago Archived 1 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine," Tradewinds.
  5. ^ Trinidad and Tobago. Encyclopædia Britannica.
  6. ^ Bridget Brereton, Introduction to the History of Trinidad and Tobago (Heinemann, 1996), 27.
  7. ^ Shannon Dudley, Music from behind the bridge: steelband spirit and politics in Trinidad and Tobago (Oxford University Press, 2008), 209.
  8. ^ Sean Sheehan, Trinidad & Tobago (Marshall Cavendish, 2001), 82.

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