Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/French_colonial_empire> ?p ?o }
- French_colonial_empire abstract "The French colonial empire, constituted the overseas colonies, protectorates and mandate territories that came under French rule from the 17th century onward. A distinction is generally made between the \"First colonial empire\", that existed until 1814, by which time most of it had been lost, and the \"Second colonial empire\", which began with the conquest of Algiers in 1830. The second empire came to an end after the loss of bitter wars in Vietnam (1955) and Algeria (1962), and peaceful decolonization elsewhere after 1960.Competing with Spain, Portugal, the United Provinces, and later England, France began to establish colonies in North America, the Caribbean, and India in the 17th century. A series of wars with Great Britain and other European major powers during the 18th century and early 19th century resulted in France losing nearly all of its conquests. France rebuilt a new empire mostly after 1850, concentrating chiefly in Africa, as well as Indochina and the South Pacific. Republicans, at first hostile to empire, only became supportive when Germany started to build her own colonial empire. As it developed the new empire took on roles of trade with France, especially supplying raw materials and purchasing manufactured items, as well as lending prestige to the motherland and spreading French civilization and language, and the Catholic religion. It also provided manpower in the World Wars.It became a moral mission to lift the world up to French standards by bringing Christianity and French culture. In 1884 the leading exponent of colonialism, Jules Ferry declared; \"The higher races have a right over the lower races, they have a duty to civilize the inferior races.\" Full citizenship rights – assimilation – were offered, although in reality \"assimilation was always receding [and] the colonial populations treated like subjects not citizens.\" France sent small numbers of settlers to its empire, contrary to Great Britain, and previously Spain and Portugal, with the only notable exception of Algeria, where the French settlers nonetheless always remained a small minority.By 1900 it was the second-largest colonial empire in the world behind the British Empire. Including metropolitan France, the total amount of land under French sovereignty reached nearly 13 million km² (5,000,000 sq. miles) with a population of 110 million people in 1939. In World War II, Charles de Gaulle and the Free French used the overseas colonies as bases from which they fought to liberate France. Historian Tony Chafer argues: \"In an effort to restore its world-power status after the humiliation of defeat and occupation, France was eager to maintain its overseas empire at the end of the Second World War.\" However, after 1945 anti-colonial movements began to challenge European authority. The French constitution of October 27, 1946 (Fourth Republic), established the French Union which endured until 1958. Newer remnants of the colonial empire were integrated into France as overseas departments and territories within the French Union. These now total altogether 119,394 km² (46,098 sq. miles), which amounts to only 1% of the pre-1939 French colonial empire's area, with 2.7 million people living in them in 2013. Their locations in all oceans of the world, however, give France the second-largest exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the world after that of the United States. By the 1970s, says Robert Aldrich, the last \"vestiges of empire held little interest for the French.\" He argues, \"Except for the traumatic decolonization of Algeria, however, what is remarkable is how few long-lasting effects on France the giving up of empire entailed.\"".
- French_colonial_empire anthem La_Marseillaise.
- French_colonial_empire currency French_franc.
- French_colonial_empire dissolutionYear "1980".
- French_colonial_empire foundingYear "1534".
- French_colonial_empire thumbnail Flag_of_France.svg?width=300.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageExternalLink bk-2118_1_french-way.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageExternalLink 91.4.greer.html.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageExternalLink french_colonial_history.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageExternalLink session-12-french-imperialism-charles-keith-1.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageExternalLink Smith%20Compartive%20French%20and%20British%20Decolonization.pdf.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageExternalLink 201387113131914906.html.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageExternalLink 1107102294.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageExternalLink 0803262477.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageExternalLink 676416.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageExternalLink 260298.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageExternalLink www.lafrique.com.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageExternalLink divide-and-rule-the-partition-of-africa-1880-1914.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageExternalLink empire.htm.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageExternalLink 7-18-imperial-rule-nationalism.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageID "216862".
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageLength "83928".
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageOutDegree "442".
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageRevisionID "708321814".
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink 1804_Haiti_massacre.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Abdelkader_El_Djezairi.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Abolitionism.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Acadia.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Acadians.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Afrikaners.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Agadir_Crisis.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Al_Jazeera.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Albert_Londres.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Alexandre_de_Rhodes.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Algeria.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Algerian_War.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Algiers.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink American_Civil_War.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink American_Revolution.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Amédée-François_Lamy.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Annam_(French_protectorate).
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Antoine_Léon_Morel-Fatio.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Arkansas.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Army_of_the_Levant.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Auguste_Febvrier_Despointes.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Bambara_groundnuts.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_Palikao.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Benin.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Benito_Juárez.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Blaise_Diagne.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Bonaparte.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Boshin_War.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Bourbon.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Brazil.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink British_Empire.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink British_North_America.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Béké.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Cajuns.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Caldoche.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Cambodia.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Cameroon.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Cape_Colony.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Carib_Expulsion.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Caribbean.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Category:1534_establishments_in_the_French_colonial_empire.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Category:1946_disestablishments_in_the_French_colonial_empire.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Category:Former_French_colonies.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Category:French_colonial_empire.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Category:History_of_modern_European_colonialism.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Category:Overseas_empires.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Catholic_Church.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Cecil_Rhodes.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Central_Africa.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Central_African_Republic.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Central_Vietnam.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Chad.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Chad_Basin.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Chandannagar.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Charles_Cousin-Montauban,_Comte_de_Palikao.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Charles_Rigault_de_Genouilly.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Charles_X_of_France.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Charles_de_Gaulle.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Civilizing_mission.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Cobden–Chevalier_Treaty.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Cochinchina.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Compagnie_des_xc3x8eles_de_lAmxc3xa9rique.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Concession_(territory).
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Confederate_States_of_America.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Constitution_of_France.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Cotton_diplomacy.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Cuba.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Da_Nang.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Dakar.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Dakar–Niger_Railway.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Dakar–Saint-Louis_railway.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Damascus.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Decolonization.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Denshūtai.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Djibouti.
- French_colonial_empire wikiPageWikiLink Dominican_Republic.