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[1] [2] During the 19th and 20th centuries, the French colonial empire was the second largest colonial empire in the world only behind the British Empire; it extended over 13,500,000 km 2 (5,200,000 sq mi) [3] [4] of land at its height in the 1920s and 1930s.
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, its global colonial empire was the second largest behind the British Empire. At its peak, between 1919 and 1939, the second French colonial empire extended over 12,347,000 km² (4,767,000 sq. miles) of land.
Western colonialism - French Empire, Imperialism, Colonization: France probably could have become the leading European colonial power in the 17th and 18th centuries. It had the largest population and wealth, the best army while Louis XIV ruled, and, for a time in his reign, the strongest navy.
Jul 29, 2022 · Jul 29, 2022. -- There is an astonishing dearth of cohesive information on France’s Second Colonial Empire — that is, its regime of overseas possessions from 1830 (the beginning of the...
Feb 25, 2016 · The French presence in Africa dates to the 17th century, but the main period of colonial expansion came in the 19th century with the invasion of Ottoman Algiers in 1830, conquests in West and Equatorial Africa during the so-called scramble for Africa and the establishment of protectorates in Tunisia and Morocco in the decades before the First Wo...
Apr 21, 2020 · This essay describes the expansion, development, and decline of France’s second colonial empire (1830–1962), as the nineteenth century saw a politically and economically resurgent France move away from the Western Hemisphere and begin to colonize large parts of Africa and South-East Asia, eventually constructing an empire second only to Great Br...
Description. Contents. Resources. Courses. About the Authors. France had the second largest empire in the world after Britain, but one with very different origins and purposes. Over more than four centuries, the French empire explained itself in many different ways through many different colonial regimes.
