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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 terms of population however, on the eve of World War II, France and her colonial ...
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.
The First French Empire [4] [a] or French Empire (French: Empire français; Latin: Imperium Francicum), also known as Napoleonic France, was the empire ruled by Napoleon Bonaparte, who established French hegemony over much of continental Europe at the beginning of the 19th century.
In 1804, Napoleon was titled Emperor by the senate, thus founding the First French Empire. Napoleon's rule was constitutional, and although autocratic, it was much more advanced than traditional European monarchies of the time. The proclamation of the French Empire was met by the Third Coalition.
France through its French colonial empire, became a superpower from 1643 until 1815; [2] [3] from the reign of King Louis XIV until the defeat of Napoleon in the Napoleonic Wars. [4] The Spanish Empire lost its superpower status to France after the signing of the Treaty of the Pyrenees (but maintained the status of Great Power until the ...
The French colonial empire in the New World also included New France (Nouvelle France) in North America, particularly in what is today the province of Quebec, Canada, and for a very short period (12 years) also Antarctic France (France Antarctique, in French), in present-day Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. All of these settlements were in violation of ...
Second French Empire, led by Napoleon III, the French state from 1852 to 1870 French colonial empire , the territories administered by France from the 16th century to the mid-20th century Francia , or the Frankish Empire of Charlemagne , the territory inhabited by the Franks, a West Germanic tribal confederation, from 481 to 843
The First French Empire, officially the French Republic, [d] then the French Empire after 1809 and also known as Napoleonic France, was the empire ruled by Napoleon Bonaparte, who established French hegemony over much of continental Europe at the beginning of the 19th century. It lasted from 18 May 1804 to 3 May 1814 and again briefly from 20 ...