varieties of the French language spoken traditionally by French Louisianians in colonial Lower Louisiana. As of today Louisiana French is primarily used...

territories that came under French rule from the 16th century onward. A distinction is generally made between the "First French colonial empire", that existed...

French colonial architecture includes several styles of architecture used by the French during colonization. Many former French colonies, especially those...

Troupes coloniales ("Colonial Troops") or Armée coloniale ("Colonial Army"), commonly called La Coloniale, were the colonial troops of the French colonial empire...

protectorates and mandates of the French Colonial Empire used distinctive colonial flags. These most commonly had a French Tricolour in the canton. As well...

including First Period English (late-medieval), Spanish Colonial, French Colonial, Dutch Colonial, and Georgian. These styles are associated with the houses...

Cambodia when it was a French protectorate within French Indochina, a collection of Southeast Asian protectorates within the French colonial empire. The protectorate...

This article lists the colonial governors of Cameroon. It encompasses the period when the country was under colonial rule of the German Empire (as Kamerun)...

Union and after 1947 as the Indochinese Federation, was a grouping of French colonial territories in Mainland Southeast Asia until its end in 1954. It comprised...

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 km2 (3,900,000 sq mi)...

French Algeria (French: Alger until 1839, then Algérie afterwards; unofficially Algérie française, Arabic: الجزائر المستعمرة), also known as Colonial...

Chad was a part of the French colonial empire from 1900 to 1960. Colonial rule under the French began in 1900 when the Military Territory of Chad was established...

Louisiana (French: Louisiane) or French Louisiana (Louisiane française) was an administrative district of New France. In 1682 the French explorer René-Robert...

The French Union (French: Union française) was a political entity created by the French Fourth Republic to replace the old French colonial empire system...

Great Britain, but was costly and achieved little for France. France through its French colonial empire, became a superpower from 1643 until 1815; from...

relations France–Americas relations France–Asia relations Evolution of the French Empire French colonial empire French colonisation of the Americas International...

French Sudan (French: Soudan français; Arabic: السودان الفرنسي as-Sūdān al-Faransī) was a French colonial territory in the Federation of French West Africa...

of European colonial administrators (French: Gouverneur général de l'Afrique équatoriale française) responsible for the territory of French Equatorial...

A cercle was the smallest unit of French political administration in French colonial Africa that was headed by a European officer. A cercle consisted of...

component of French colonialism during the 19th and 20th centuries. The French government promoted the concept of cultural assimilation to colonial subjects...

were overwhelmingly Catholic, spoke Colonial French (although some also spoke Louisiana Creole) and kept up many French social customs, modified by other...

Postcolonial Legacies in French and British Borderlands. U of Nebraska Press. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-8032-6771-8. Anglo-French carving of colonial space is a significant...

The French Colonial Union (French: Union coloniale française) was a group of French merchants established for the purpose of ensuring continued French colonialism...

French Equatorial Africa (French: Afrique équatoriale française, or AEF) was a federation of French colonial territories in Equatorial Africa which consisted...

Indochina North America French colonial architecture in North America South Asia French colonial architecture in India Dutch colonial architecture is most...

Beylik of Tunis French protectorate of Tunisia List of French residents-general in Tunisia Kingdom of Tunisia French Algeria List of French governors of...

"Housekeepers, merchants, rentières: free women of color in the port cities of colonial Saint-Domingue, 1750–1790". In Catterall, Douglas; Campbell, Jodi (eds...

A colonial empire is a collective of territories (often called colonies), either contiguous with the imperial center or located overseas, settled by the...

The French Louisianians (French: Louisianais), also known as Louisiana French, are Latin French people native to the states that were established out...

was under a trade monopoly, it was not constituted as an official French colonial settlement. The first official settlement of Canada was Québec, founded...