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The French colonial empire ( French: Empire colonial français) comprised the overseas colonies, protectorates, and mandate territories that came under French rule from the 16th century onward. A distinction is generally made between the " First French colonial empire ", that existed until 1814, by which time most of it had been lost or sold ...
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France and its Colonies. This map is part of a series of 19 animated maps showing the history of Europe's colonial expansion, 1820-1939. In 1815, France was left with only a very small part of its first colonial empire, mostly a collection of islands and trading posts such as Guadeloupe and Martinique in the West Indies, Saint-Pierre & Miquelon ...
The map you show of France is inaccurate. It shows Alsace and Lorraine as French. In fact they had been annexed by Germany in 1871 and regaining this territories was the principal War Aim of France in 1914. The map as illustrated represents France after the Treaty of Versailles after the War.
A map of France in 1843 under the July Monarchy. By the French Revolution, the Kingdom of France had expanded to nearly the modern territorial limits. The 19th century would complete the process by the annexation of the Duchy of Savoy and the County of Nice (first during the First Empire, and then definitively in 1860) and some small papal (like Avignon) and foreign possessions.
By 1914 French Lorraine had become the major centre of French iron and steel production, and France had become the world’s largest exporter of raw iron ore (primarily to Germany). Yet the French were being outpaced by rivals. In 1870 France had still ranked as the world’s second industrial and trading nation; by 1914 it had fallen to a poor ...
Overall, August and September 1914 were among the deadliest months of the war. Following the Battle of the Marne, after only six weeks of combat, the French had already lost about 100,000 men. On 22 August 1914 alone, 27,000 French soldiers were killed, making it the deadliest day in French military history.
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