French colonial empire
The French colonial empire constitutit the owerseas colonies, pertectorates an mandate territories that came unner French rule frae the 16t century onwart.
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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References
eedit- ↑ 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.