Is Tahiti a French Colony? Was it a French colony in the time that Paul Gauguin painted Tahitian scenes-1890?

Answer 1

'It became a French colony in 1880 and is now part of the self-governing overseas territory of French Polynesia. '
http://www.answers.com/topic/tahiti
so yes, it was a French colony at the time Gauguin was painting there
A very good book I read about Gauguin and Tahiti was 'Gauguin's Skirt' by Stephen F. Eisenman

Answer 2

we start from the north, there is louisiana US at the canadian side you have quebec, down to the middle east you have ivory coast, mali, senegal, dahomey, congo,gabon, tunisian algeria, morocco, lebanon,syria, in fact big part of africa,but in europe those countries that are franco phone were not colonized but it was a former department of france. in the caribbean countries, you have quadalope, saint martin, martinique,haiti, and guyana. why, you want to learn french?