The French colonial empire comprised the overseas colonies, protectorates, and mandate territories that came under French rule from the 16th century onward. A distinction is generally made between the ...

To the great and shrewd old Empire builder, to the man with a brain so extensive that the top of his head is somewhat flat, to Hubert Marshal Lyautey there came four years ago an appropriately ...

General Louis Faidherbe, who ended up becoming the colonial administrator of Senegal, was the first French official to recognize the riches and resources of West Africa, making the region known as a ...

To speak today of the French Colonial Empire is, of course, to speak of something belonging to the past. Juridically speaking, the Empire replaced it by the vague and never clearly defined concept of ...

Professor Gauvin Alexander Bailey focuses on the lives of colonized people and their legacies in a new book – the third in an ...

Since Japan took advantage of the French collapse to impose “inspectors” on French Indo-China and prevent munitions shipments to China (TIME, July 1), Tokyo has assumed that France’s prize Asiatic ...