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Terrebonne Parish ("Good Land") Timbalier Island (" timpani player") Tulane/Gravier New Orleans neighborhood named after Paul Tulane, philanthropist and son of Louis Tulane, a French immigrant. Vacherie ("Cowshed") Verdun. Versailles. Vieux Carré ("Old Square") also known as the French Quarter in New Orleans.
Location map of French America. French America (French: Amérique française), sometimes called Franco-America, in contrast to Anglo-America, is the French-speaking community of people and their diaspora, notably those tracing back origins to New France, the early French colonization of the Americas. The Canadian province of Quebec is the ...
A map of New France made by Samuel de Champlain in 1612. In 1534, Jacques Cartier planted a cross in the Gaspé Peninsula and claimed the land in the name of King Francis I. [32] It was the first province of New France. The first settlement of 400 people, Fort Charlesbourg-Royal (present-day Quebec City), was attempted in 1541 but lasted only ...
Air France was founded on 7 October 1933 as a merger of several French aviation companies. The network started with destinations across Europe, to French colonies in North Africa [clarification needed] and farther afield. [2] The 1937 route map shows European, African and Asian routes. [3]
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.
France, [a] officially the French Republic, [b] is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean, giving it one of the largest discontiguous exclusive economic zones in the world.
v. t. e. French Americans or Franco-Americans (French: Franco-américains) are citizens or nationals of the United States who identify themselves with having full or partial French or French-Canadian heritage, ethnicity and/or ancestral ties. [2][3][4] They include French-Canadian Americans, whose experience and identity differ from the broader ...
As of January 2019, there were 473 communes in France (metropolitan territory and overseas departments and regions) with population over 20,000, 280 communes with population over 30,000, 129 communes with population over 50,000 and 42 communes with population over 100,000. [1] All figures reflect the municipal population (French: population ...