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  1. The Americas. The French colonial empire in the Americas comprised New France (including Canada and Louisiana ), French West Indies (including Saint-Domingue, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Dominica, St. Lucia, Grenada, Tobago and other islands) and French Guiana. Pictured above is New France.

  2. t. e. France began colonizing the Americas in the 16th century and continued into the following centuries as it established a colonial empire in the Western Hemisphere. France established colonies in much of eastern North America, on several Caribbean islands, and in South America.

  3. Jan 9, 2023 · René-Robert Cavelier was a French explorer and colonizer who played a significant role in the establishment of French colonies in the present-day United States. In 1682, he claimed the Mississippi River Valley for France, naming it "La Louisiane" in honor of King Louis XIV .

  4. French colonial possessions centered on these bodies of water (and, later, down the Mississippi River to the port of New Orleans). Navigator Jacques Cartier claimed northern North America for France, naming the area New France. From 1534 to 1541, he made three voyages of discovery on the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the St. Lawrence River.

  5. About. Transcript. European explorers like the Spanish, French, and Dutch colonized the New World, each with different goals. The Spanish sought quick wealth and religious conversion, leading to harsh treatment of Native Americans. The French and Dutch, focused on trade, fostered friendlier relations with natives, often through intermarriage.

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  6. FRENCH EMPIRE. In 1914 the French Empire was the second largest colonial empire in population and extent/territory. A century earlier, France had already lost most of a substantial previous empire in India and North America, retaining only a few slave islands in the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean, tiny colonial fragments in India, and some ...

  7. The total area of the French colonial empire, with the first (mainly in the Americas and Asia) and second (mainly in Africa and Asia), the French colonial empires combined, reached 24,000,000 km 2 (9,300,000 sq mi), the second largest in the world (the first being the British Empire).

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