The French colonial empire encompassed vast territories in northern, central, and western Africa, comprising 18 modern-day African countries. However, France's colonial policies were primarily driven ...

After the French parliament voted on Monday to return to Ivory Coast a "talking drum" that colonial troops took from the ...

Like a kind of Gallic Colonel Blimp, Paris' conservative Le Figaro (circ. 390,000) takes French imperial prestige with deep seriousness. To awaken the same feeling in other Frenchmen, Le Figaro ...

A valuable statement of the changes wrought by the war in the French colonial empire, ... La France D’outre-Mer: De L’empire Colonial à L’union Française (1938-1947) Reviewed by Robert Gale Woolbert ...

After the French parliament voted on Monday to return to Ivory Coast a "talking drum" that colonial troops took from the ...

The northern city of Saint Louis, or Ndar in the predominant Wolof language, is renowned for its pastel-coloured colonial ...

FRENCH EMPIRE: Prize to Nippon. 6 minute read. TIME. September 16, 1940 12:00 AM GMT-4. ... The French Colonial Government canceled military leaves, closed the port of Haiphong, ...

Though officially the French empire sought to instill its three-pillared value system — liberty, equality and fraternity — throughout the colonies, this didn’t play out on the ground or in the war ...

The northern city of Saint Louis, or Ndar in the predominant Wolof language, is renowned for its pastel-coloured colonial houses and was the capital of French West Africa until 1902.

Behind modern Cinco de Mayo celebrations is the 1862 Battle of Puebla, a Mexican triumph over French colonial forces. General Zaragoza’s Mexican army outside repels French forces during the ...