French colonial empire
French colonial empire Empire colonial français | |||||||
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| 1534–1980[1][2] | |||||||
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 French colonial empire | |||||||
| Status | French colonial empire | ||||||
| Caipital | Paris | ||||||
| Bourbon Bonaparte | |||||||
| History | |||||||
| 1534 | |||||||
| 1803 | |||||||
| 1830–1852 | |||||||
| 1946 | |||||||
| 1958 | |||||||
• Unthirldom o Vanuatu | 1980[1][2] | ||||||
| Aurie | |||||||
| 1680 (first colonial empire peak)[3] | 10,000,000 km2 (3,900,000 sq mi) | ||||||
| 1939 (seicont colonial empire peak)[4] | 13,500,000 km2 (5,200,000 sq mi) | ||||||
| 1534-1980 | 24,000,000 km2 (9,300,000 sq mi) | ||||||
| Currency | Franc an various ither currencies | ||||||
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The French colonial empire constitutit the owerseas colonies, pertectorates an mandate territories that came unner French rule frae the 16t century onwart.
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ Robert Aldrich, Greater France: A History of French Overseas Expansion (1996) p 304
- ↑ Melvin E. Page, ed. (2003). Colonialism: An International Social, Cultural, and Political Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. p. 218.CS1 maint: extra text: authors leet (link)
- ↑ Rein Taagepera (September 1997). "Expansion and Contraction Patterns of Large Polities: Context for Russia". International Studies Quarterly. 41 (3): 501. doi:10.1111/0020-8833.00053. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
- ↑ Rein Taagepera (September 1997). "Expansion and Contraction Patterns of Large Polities: Context for Russia". International Studies Quarterly. 41 (3): 502. doi:10.1111/0020-8833.00053. Retrieved 16 September 2016.