The Croisière du Tricentenaire is a spectacular staging of the arrival of the official delegations, bearers of French values in the Caribbean, who came in large numbers from Le Havre to inaugurate and celebrate the three hundredth anniversary of the colonization of the Antilles and Guyana. With its 366 passengers, the Messageries Transatlantique’s liner Le Colombie brought together the colonial, political, scholarly and artistic elite of Metropolitan France for official representation. The aim is to analyze this transatlantic fiction at the heart of republican assimilationist propaganda while conveying the frivolity of this ephemeral cruise.