Abstract
France seems to have constantly ran counter to régional move when we consider her overseas territories in the Pacific Basin. This is the case with the constitutional autonomies she first gave to French Polynesia and New Caledonia, years before the Anglo-Saxon metropolitan countries, to retract herself later while the majority of the British, Australian and New Zealand colonies reached independency. This is also the case with the French nuclear test programme which started in the Tuamotu archipelago while the United States and Britain had stopped their own. In declining to take into account the regional context, France produced a negative image in both Australasia and independent Pacific countries. And relationships of dependency, at the political and economical levels as well as in the religious and institutional spheres, which link the latter to the former, favour the emergence of a large negative consensus towards France in the region.
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