The French colonial Empire (French: Empire colonial français) was land controlled by the French from the 16th century to the late 1960s. In the 17th and 18th centuries France gained and lost large territories in North America and India.

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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 ...

Le premier empire colonial français est l'espace colonial de la France issu des conquêtes de l'Ancien Régime dites « vieilles colonies ». Les désignations suivantes lui correspondent: « premier espace colonial français », « empire royal », « empire monarchique » car il a été créé ou dirigé majoritairement par des régimes monarchiques, « empire colonial français moderne ».

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 "First French Colonial Empire," that existed until 1814, by which time most of it had been lost or sold, and the "Second French Colonial Empire", which began with the conquest …