French colonial empire - Wikipedia
WEBThe French colonial empire (French: Empire colonial français) comprised the overseas colonies, protectorates, and mandate territories that came under French rule from the 16th century onward.
Western colonialism - French Empire, Imperialism, Colonization
WEBWestern colonialism - French Empire, Imperialism, Colonization: France probably could have become the leading European colonial power in the 17th and 18th centuries. It had the largest population and wealth, the best army while Louis XIV ruled, and, for a time in his reign, the strongest navy.
French Empire - New World Encyclopedia
WEBFrance had colonial possessions, in various forms, from the beginning of the 17th century until the 1960s. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, its global colonial empire was the second largest behind the British Empire.
French colonization of the Americas - Wikipedia
WEBt. e. France began colonizing the Americas in the 16th century and continued into the following centuries as it established a colonial empire in the Western Hemisphere. France established colonies in much of eastern North America, on several Caribbean islands, and in South America.
History of France - France, 1715–89 | Britannica
WEBFrance, 1715–89. The year 1789 is the great dividing line in the history of modern France. The fall of the Bastille, a medieval fortress used as a state prison, on July 14, 1789, symbolizes for France, as well as for other nations, the end of the premodern era characterized by an organicist and religiously sanctioned traditionalism.
Evolution of the French colonial empire - Wikipedia
WEBEvolution of the French colonial empire. From the 16th to the 17th centuries, the First French colonial empire stretched from a total area at its peak in 1680 to over 10,000,000 km 2 (3,900,000 sq mi), the second largest empire in the world at the time behind only the Spanish Empire.
French colonial empire - Wikiwand
WEBOn the eve of World War I, France's colonial empire was the second largest in the world after the British Empire. The French colonial empire comprised the overseas colonies, protectorates, and mandate territories that came under French rule from the …
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