World War I weakened liberal republican ideology in French colonialism.

Evidence

After World War I, these same values weakened as the Third Republic attempted to come to terms with the losses and traumas of the war and the growth of nationalist protest throughout the empire. Colonial discourse echoed this shift: established republican verities now surfaced in a more attenuated form in Dakar, replaced by a more conservative vision of progress-as the new respect for the African aristocracy and the greater emphasis on human mise en valeur attest. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 42

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 42
• XREF: connects to: World War I’s disillusionment killed progressivism’s reform mood