More links and websites
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La France en Nouvelle-Zélande
The website of the French embassy in New Zealand.
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French colonists
On the New Zealand in History website, this is an outline of the Akaroa settlement, and the conflicting French and British interests.
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French Fest
Biennial French festival in Akaroa.
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Frenz School
Frenz School is an association which has set up a French–English unit at Auckland’s Richmond Road School.
More suggestions and sources
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Buick, T. Lindsay. The French at Akaroa: an adventure in colonization. Christchurch: Capper, 1980 (originally published 1928).
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Dunmore, John, ed. New Zealand and the French: two centuries of contact. Waikanae: Heritage, 1990.
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Goulter, Mary Catherine. Sons of France: a forgotten influence on New Zealand history. Wellington: Whitcombe & Tombs, 1957.
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Hemming, Christine. The art of the French voyages to New Zealand, 1769–1846. Auckland: Heritage, 2000.
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Martin, Kate and Brad Mercer, eds. The French place in the Bay of Islands: Te Urunga Mai o Te Iwi Wiwi. Russell: Mātou Matauwhi, 2011.
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Tremewan, Peter, French Akaroa: an attempt to colonise southern New Zealand. Christchurch: University of Canterbury Press, 2010.
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Salmond, Anne. Two worlds: first meetings between Maori and Europeans, 1642–1772. Auckland: Viking, 1991.