The exemplary crisis of the european Model in Latin America: the olden roots of the image of the french political and cultural model

The French and Francophiles have been glorified for more than a century now because of the decisiveness of the French influence in the birth of new states throughout the Latin American continent. Thus, today we can see a constant return to this New World: of the revolutions of independence and of the birth of nation-states of the Americas up to the present day. The history of Latin America would have progressively approximated the cultural sphere, shaking itself free of the European influence, in particular of France. In our opinion, this phenomenon requires an analysis, which we intend to accomplish here.

Francophiles; French influence; Latin America