Introduction : territorial loss and the construction of French colonial identities, 1763-1962 / Kate Marsh -- "Remember Saint Domingue" : accounts of the Haitian revolution by refugee planters in Paris and colonial debates under the restoration, 1814-25 / Yun Kyoung Kwon -- A celebration of empire : nostalgic representations of l'Inde française in Chocolat Suchard's colonial collecting cards of the 1930s / Kathryn Dale -- De Gaulle and the "debt of Louis XV" : how nostalgia shaped de Gaulle's North American foreign policy in the 1960s / Olivier Courteaux -- Between history, memory, and mythology : the Algerian education of Albert Camus / John Strachan -- Alexandre Arcady and the rewriting of French colonial history in Algeria / Sophie Watt -- Compensating for l'Inde perdue : narrating a special relationship between France and India in romanticized tales of the Indian uprisings (1857-1858) / Nicola Frith -- L'Inde retrouvée : loss and sovereignty in French Calicut, 1867-1868 / Akhila Yechury -- Alexandra Dumas's and Jules Verne's India : the French republic of letters discusses imperial historiography / Indra N. Mukhopadhyay -- "Le symbole de l'Afrique perdue" : Carnoux-en-Provence and the Pied-Noir community / Claire Eldridge -- La république postcoloniale? : making the nation in late-twentieth-century France / Emile Chabal