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 ...

France's parliament on Monday approved returning to Ivory Coast a "talking drum" that colonial troops took from the Ebrie tribe in 1916, in the latest boost to the repatriation of colonial spoils. The ...

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 ...

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, ...

LORD LLOYD'S statement on recent developments in colonial policy in reply to Lord Faringdon in the House of Lords on December 17 is of the greatest moment, not only as being in the nature of an ...

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 ...