CHARLES GUSTAVE SPITZ, FRENCH PHOTOGRAPHER, CELEBRATING BASTILLE DAY IN TAHITI,* PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN FOR PUBLICATION IN THE FRENCH PRESS, 1889
Mark and Carolyn Blackburn Collection of Polynesian Art/Bridgeman Images
*French national holiday celebrating the 1789 French Revolution
**French colonial territory in Polynesia, the South Pacific
The photograph best supports which of the following inferences about French colonial rule in Tahiti in the 1880?