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The French Empire Between the Wars: Imperialism, Politics and Society (2007) covers 1919–1939; Thompson, Virginia, and Richard Adloff. French West Africa (Stanford UP, 1958). Wellington, Donald C. French East India companies: A historical account and record of trade (Hamilton Books, 2006) Wesseling, H.L. and Arnold J. Pomerans.
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]
In 1806 the Holy Roman Empire was dissolved under French pressure. Confederation of the Rhine – 1812: German Confederation – 1815: North German Confederation – 1870: A confederation of German client-states of the First French Empire: An attempted partial resurrection of the Holy Roman Empire after the Napoleonic wars
[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 terms of population however, on the eve of World War II, France and her colonial ...
In 1806 the Holy Roman Empire was dissolved under French pressure. Confederation of the Rhine – 1812: German Confederation – 1815: North German Confederation – 1870: A confederation of German client-states of the First French Empire: An attempted partial resurrection of the Holy Roman Empire after the Napoleonic wars
Partition of the Frankish Empire after the Treaty of Verdun 843. West Francia Middle Francia East Francia The division of the Carolingian Empire into West, Middle and East Francia at the Treaty of Verdun in 843 - with three grandsons of the emperor Charlemagne installed as their kings - was regarded at the time as a temporary arrangement, yet it heralded the birth of what would later become ...
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.
Map of the First French Empire in 1812, divided into 130 départements, with the kingdoms of Spain, Portugal, ... Borderlands in World History, 1700–1914.