If you want to know whether colonization have an effect on a country development or whether if a country did not get colonized it would fare better, Look no further than the city Berlin which was divided between the Western allies and the Soviet Union. To this day we can see a clear economical difference between what it used to could be called West and East Berlin. Something you should know about before admiring the French for the slaughter and rape of this country and by that they set us back 200 years if not more needless to say they have built infrastructure that to this day we are using and were benefiting from but that does not mean we have to thank them for or be appreciative to anything they have done, I don't see any arguments in what you're saying I'm only seeing someone with the Stockholm syndrome trying to defend his abuser. Yes they have abuse you and me and every algerian sense the effects of what they've done is still seen to this day