To be fair, Frances record of colonial history on Africa is actually one of the worse(if not the worse) among European colonial powers. Some people might complain about us but our colonial rule in Africa pale in comparison to that of France or even Belgium.
To put things in perspective, even today France still holds has a tight grip over its African colonies , meanwhile our former colonies are more independent to decide their own internal issues, compared to french African colonies who to the day have french military bases in all of them and hey still have to use Frances former colonial currency to this day, they also have to keep their country's foreign reserves in French central bank control and can't withdraw them without France's approval. In short we are relatively better.