Story: French

More links and websites

• La France en Nouvelle-Zélande

  The website of the French embassy in New Zealand.

• French colonists

  On the New Zealand in History website, this is an outline of the Akaroa settlement, and the conflicting French and British interests.

• French Fest

  Biennial French festival in Akaroa.

• 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

• Buick, T. Lindsay. The French at Akaroa: an adventure in colonization. Christchurch: Capper, 1980 (originally published 1928).
• Dunmore, John, ed. New Zealand and the French: two centuries of contact. Waikanae: Heritage, 1990.
• Goulter, Mary Catherine. Sons of France: a forgotten influence on New Zealand history. Wellington: Whitcombe & Tombs, 1957.
• Hemming, Christine. The art of the French voyages to New Zealand, 1769–1846. Auckland: Heritage, 2000.
• 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.
• Tremewan, Peter, French Akaroa: an attempt to colonise southern New Zealand. Christchurch: University of Canterbury Press, 2010.
• Salmond, Anne. Two worlds: first meetings between Maori and Europeans, 1642–1772. Auckland: Viking, 1991.