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Some of the colonies, protectorates and mandates of the French Colonial Empire used distinctive colonial flags.These most commonly had a French Tricolour in the canton.. As well as the flags of individual colonies, the governors-general of French colonies flew a square flag with a blue field and the French ensign in the canton.
A white flag with a bordered, first version of the French tricolore on the top-left honour quadrant 1638–1790 1814–1830: Naval ensign of Kingdom of France: A pure white flag: 1943–1945: Naval jack of Free France: The argent rhomboid field is defaced with a gules Lorraine cross. 10 August 1939–present: Flag of the Admiral of the French Navy
French colonial flags; French colonisation of the Americas; French law on colonialism (for teachers, 2005) History of France. Second French Empire; French Third Republic; Kingdom of France; International relations (1814–1919) List of French possessions and colonies; New France; Organisation internationale de la Francophonie; Overseas France
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Although France had already established a colonial empire overseas since the early 17th century, the French state had remained a kingdom under the Bourbons and a republic after the French Revolution. Historians refer to Napoleon's regime as the First Empire to distinguish it from the restorationist Second Empire (1852–1870) ruled by his ...
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 the 16th to the 17th centuries, the First French colonial empire stretched from a total area at its peak in 1680 to over 10,000,000 square kilometres (3,900,000 sq mi), the second-largest empire in the world at the time behind the Spanish Empire. Colonial conflicts with Great Britain led to the loss of much of its North American holdings by ...
Flag of France; Flags of the regions of France; Fourth Anglo-Dutch War; François Christophe de Kellermann; François Joseph Lefebvre; François Joseph Paul de Grasse; French colonial flags; French ensigns; French frigate Belle Poule (1766) French frigate Belle Poule (1834) French frigate Méduse (1810) French ship Annibal (1778) French ship ...