France colonized Cambodia from the 1860s to 1953. While France modernized Cambodia's infrastructure and education system, the colonial domination also negatively impacted Cambodian culture and sovereignty. Overall, France's colonization of Cambodia resulted in both benefits and harms for the country's development.

1. The pros & cons of the French
colonisation in Cambodia :
from Mathieu Guérin’s article on
“Colonial domination &
modernization in Cambodia”