Did France and Britan use direct control or indirect control for their colonies? Compare and contrast how...?

they ruled their colonies? please?Did France and Britan use direct control or indirect control for their colonies? Compare and contrast how...?
France used a system called assimilation. It wasn't really direct control, but it was more direct than Britain's.





Britain used indirect control.





Assimilation encouraged the local population to adopt French culture and language, and the French played a larger, hands on role in administering their colonial affairs.





The British simply paid the elites in the local populations to run their colony for them.