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    territories that came under French rule from the 16th century onward. A distinction is generally made between the "First French colonial empire", that existed...
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    French colonial architecture includes several styles of architecture used by the French during colonization. Many former French colonies, especially those...
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    protectorates and mandates of the French Colonial Empire used distinctive colonial flags. These most commonly had a French Tricolour in the canton. As well...
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    Cambodia when it was a French protectorate within French Indochina, a collection of Southeast Asian protectorates within the French colonial empire. The protectorate...
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    Union and after 1941 as the Indochinese Federation, was a grouping of French colonial territories in Mainland Southeast Asia until its end in 1954. It comprised...
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    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...
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    Troupes coloniales ("Colonial Troops") or Armée coloniale ("Colonial Army"), commonly called La Coloniale, were the colonial troops of the French colonial empire...
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    varieties of the French language spoken traditionally by French Louisianians in colonial Lower Louisiana. As of today Louisiana French is primarily used...
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    including First Period English (late-medieval), Spanish Colonial, French Colonial, Dutch Colonial, and Georgian. These styles are associated with the houses...
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    French Algeria (French: Alger until 1839, then Algérie afterwards; unofficially Algérie française, Arabic: الجزائر المستعمرة), also known as Colonial...
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    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)...
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  • 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)...
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    French West Africa (French: Afrique-Occidentale française, AOF) was a federation of eight French colonial territories in West Africa: Mauritania, Senegal...
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    The French Union (French: Union française) was a political entity created by the French Fourth Republic to replace the old French colonial empire system...
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    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)...
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    French Equatorial Africa (French: Afrique équatoriale française, or AEF) was a federation of French colonial territories in Equatorial Africa which consisted...
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    Indochina North America French colonial architecture in North America South Asia French colonial architecture in India Dutch colonial architecture is most...
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    was under a trade monopoly, it was not constituted as an official French colonial settlement. The first official settlement of Canada was Québec, founded...
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    French Guinea (French: Guinée française) was a French colonial possession in West Africa. Its borders, while changed over time, were in 1958 those of the...
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    component of French colonialism during the 19th and 20th centuries. The French government promoted the concept of cultural assimilation to colonial subjects...
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    the French colonial regime. In 1956, France's socialist government renewed the French commitment to greater autonomy in Madagascar and other colonial possessions...
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  • The French Colonial Union (French: Union coloniale française) was a group of French merchants established for the purpose of ensuring continued French colonialism...
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    native populations. French troops were spread all across its empire, primarily to deal with the local population. The French colonial empire ultimately...
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    The French protectorate of Laos (French: Protectorat français du Laos) was a French protectorate in Southeast Asia of what is today Laos between 1893...
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    Empire against those of the French, each side being supported by various Native American tribes. At the start of the war, the French colonies had a population...
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    within the French Union. Nam Kỳ originated from the reign of Minh Mạng of the Nguyễn dynasty, but became a name associated with the French colonial period...
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  • the colonial marines, contained the core of the military forces of New France. It was only during the French and Indian War that units from the French Royal...
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    The French Third Republic (French: Troisième République, sometimes written as La IIIe République) was the system of government adopted in France from 4...
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    of French colonial policy were far from the spirit of French egalitarianism. In Mauretania and the other French territories of the Sahara, the French colonial...
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    Vichy France (French: Régime de Vichy; 10 July 1940 – 9 August 1944), officially the French State (État français), was the French rump state headed by...
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