La guerre de Sept ans et ses consequences atlantiques : Kourou ou I' apparition d'un nouveau systeme colonial Marion E Godfroy-Tayart de Borms.

The impact of French colonization in South America, particularly in French Guiana, is discussed. The article attempts to challenge the belief that the consequences of the Treaty of Paris, signed in 1763, in which France ceded Canada to Britain in exchange for a number of island possessions in the Caribbean and northern Atlantic, were not viewed negatively in France. The French, under the command of Etienne-François de Stainville, duc de Choiseul, secrétaire d'Etat à la Marine (Secretary of State of the Navy), launched a naval expedition during 1763 to 1765 to French Guiana almost immediately after the signing of the peace treaty. The author argues that France was attempting to create a so-called "European system" of colonization as a counter balance to British domination of North America.