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  2. French colonization of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    French traders and colonists tried again to settle a France Équinoxiale further North, in what is today French Guiana, in 1626, 1635 (when the capital, Cayenne, was founded) and 1643. Twice a Compagnie de la France équinoxiale was founded, in 1643 and 1645, but both foundered as a result of misfortune and mismanagement.

  3. Plaçage - Wikipedia

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    Plaçage was a recognized extralegal system in French and Spanish slave colonies of North America (including the Caribbean) by which ethnic European men entered into civil unions with non-Europeans of African, Native American and mixed-race descent. The term comes from the French placer meaning "to place with".

  4. List of French possessions and colonies - Wikipedia

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    From the 16th to the 17th centuries, the First French colonial empire existed mainly in the Americas and Asia. During the 19th and 20th centuries, the second French colonial empire existed mainly in Africa and Asia. France had about 80 colonies throughout its history, the second most colonies in the world behind only the British Empire. [1]

  5. French colonial empire - Wikipedia

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    Characteristic of plantation colonies, the French colonists were a minority on Reunion Island. In 1763 there were only 4,000 French colonists while there were over 18,000 African enslaved people. [31] The majority of enslaved people on Reunion Island worked on coffee plantations. They primarily came from Madagascar, Mozambique, and Senegal. [31]

  6. Sarnia - Wikipedia

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    Sarnia is a city in Lambton County, Ontario, Canada.It had a 2021 population of 72,047, [2] and is the largest city on Lake Huron.Sarnia is located on the eastern bank of the junction between the Upper and Lower Great Lakes, where Lake Huron flows into the St. Clair River in the Southwestern Ontario region, which forms the Canada–United States border, directly across from Port Huron, Michigan.

  7. Crown lands of France - Wikipedia

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    At the beginning of Hugh Capet's reign, the crown estate was extremely small and consisted mostly of scattered possessions in the Île-de-France and Orléanais regions (Senlis, Poissy, Orléans), with several other isolated pockets, such as Attigny. These lands were largely the inheritance of the Robertians, the direct ancestors of the Capetians.

  8. List of former European colonies - Wikipedia

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    Real Audiencia of Lima (1542–1821) Governorate of the Río de la Plata (1549–1776) Real Audiencia of Charcas (1559–1776) Real Audiencia of Quito (1563–1717) (1723–1739) Real Audiencia of Concepción (1565–1575) Governorate of Guayrá (1617–1776) Real Audiencia of Buenos Aires (1661–1671) Real Audiencia of Cuzco (1787–1825)

  9. Company of One Hundred Associates - Wikipedia

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    The Company of One Hundred Associates (French: formally the Compagnie de la Nouvelle-France, or colloquially the Compagnie des Cent-Associés or Compagnie du Canada), or Company of New France, was a French trading and colonization company chartered in 1627 to capitalize on the North American fur trade and to administer and expand French colonies there. [1]