French peace dissolved village cohesion and fostered African individualism.

Evidence

The uprooted [deracines] . .. have not found everywhere an organization strong enough to contain [encadrer] them … Already before the war the paix franyaise encouraged little by little the dispersion of the natives and diminished the solid cohesion of the villages where the authority of the elders used to hold sway uncontested. A growing individualism slowly but surely began to destroy the powerful African collectivity … It is now necessary for us to reconstitute this cohesion … and to restore to village chiefs their authority. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 664

Categorization

• XREF: A strong articulation of the unintended social disruption caused by French pacification — the French peace itself as a destabilizing force, echoing the reader’s interest in ramifications of the republican mission.