A major study in art history in which Sophie Leclercq, drawing on and analyzing multiple sources, texts, and visual documents, sheds light on a blind spot in French colonialism: how, between 1870 and 1960, children were taught about colonial conquest through edifying imagery, and how their view of colonized populations was shaped?
Sophie Leclercq is a historian and associate researcher at the Center for Cultural History at the University of Versailles St-Quentin. She teaches at Sciences Po (Poitiers campus) and is a project manager at the National Center for Educational Documentation. She worked for several years in the research and education department of the Quai Branly Museum.
