History of the French Colonial Empire

[@divinspree6276]

This is way inaccurate. French Empire was way larger in North America and in India. Morocco and Tunisia were part of it as well.

[@xAnonymousComedia]

In the video it show morocco as a part from 1914 to 1946, but French never colonized whole of morocco, they just colonized the big cities. While Spain colonized the Sahara and some northern cities

[@RoboticsBay]

The Bad GUY Actually not, Morocco was under full French protectorate (1915-1956), which means the country kept a very low interior sovereignity and was privated from its exterior decision makings.

[@tomg4685]

Divinspree thats a joke and if you think that you clearly havent studied history enough. New France in North America was hardly populated until much after it was first established and they also got kicked out of India by the British pretty early on. Whatever they still had in India wasnt much at all.

[@roeese1]

You forgot the Franco-Mexican War.

[@maximeschmitt2094]

Morocco and Tunisia were not French colonies but French protectorates. Just like French Indochina by the way. As for Lebanon and Syria, they had a different status (neither colonies nor protectorates).

[@ericus08]

Lol even england has been french for 200 years with guillaume le conquerant

[@grimjowjaggerjak]

yes but that was between 1055 and 1355

[@tomg4685]

Siddhartha gautama you mean norman

[@tomg4685]

Siddhartha gautama also parts of france were under english rule like calais

[@dustman0048]

@@tomg4685 LOL it's true the cities of Calais in a huuuuge part of France xD

[@Raisonnance.]

@@tomg4685 norman were french :) they spoke french

[@veronicaecheverria7027]

Thank you for this video! Simple and quick

[@jannatulmomi1208]

0:06

[@Endgame707]

Hey did you know that in 1764 the french empire tried to conquer Turkey? They failed tho

[@skiteufr]

The area of influence in North America and India was way bigger. And we don't speak of Colonial Empire since the 1960's and the decolonisation which granted independence to all colonies. Now the remnants, which amount for 1% of the former Empire, are overseas departments and collectivities, they are part of France and not colonies...

[@Millegoules]

Algeria Was also considered a formal part of France

[@oanhuuchuong2266]

Indochina of French (1887-1954)

[@cruzgomes5660]

Rip

[@elliotreilly7825]

totally epic

[@pulseless_1916]

Where did you find the information? I need it, please help, I like video. Big sub

[@sernold9527]

is there still some piece of land in the brazilian america left of french colonies?

[@benedictus8996]

yeah french guyana

[@AitheinOfQuartz]

Your comment is very very VERY lacking in evidence after the Canadian-American Union part. Bahamas is currently officially called the Commonwealth of the Bahamas. It is still a Commonwealth Realm of the U.K.

[@AitheinOfQuartz]

Nigeria is rich in natural resources, so I'm not surprised.

[@maximeschmitt2094]

Nigeria has never been French. It was a British colony.

[@fidelr599]

Torrent You're right about French ginea they're French country and it was a bigger territory but because there was a small part of Brazilian Portuguese colonial territory the French al holand were kick out by the Portuguese and the Spanish navy at that time were left with that small part of land. ...

[@kev492001]

I wish there was more French Empire's tributes, there is some but hope people make more! :)

[@auberginereverie]

French Colonial Empire 1550 - Permanent

[@TheNecropolis20]

y it is still part of france. in fact this is the location of France's Space launching facility becasue its closer to the equator and this provides a better launch for its satellites.

[@arthemis1039]

Not only France, but also for the whole Europe bcz of ESA, and also of some countries which prefer this lauchsite than Cap Carnaveral or Baikaunour

[@démenciel6742]

Thx yo

[@AmorSapientiae]

you forgot Napoleon's invasions. + madagascar

[@1001Ratchet]

+AmorSapientiae They didn't forget Madagascar.

[@Wolfgonbuaf]

🌍:You are still a colonial power sir 🇫🇷:That's dependency, sir 🗣️🔥

[@mr.anonymous520]

America vs china in modern day is just like England vs franch

[@fidelr599]

Yes the French came first to north America but it's been proved that the English were stronger because they kept more lands plus English is mainly the language that rules this days cheers. ..

[@alexdomenech24]

France should've stayed it's way in 1938

[@tomg4685]

The professional youtube historians here will have you thinking the french empire was something incredibly special. It wasnt. Look how short lived it was compared to the other empires. Nearly all of New France in North America was taken over by the British then Napoleon got his ass kicked in a relatively short amount of time by the british at waterloo and that was the end of french "hegemony" in Europe. France's african possessions were short lived as well, ending sometime beteeen 1950s and 1970s. And the myth of the "french conquest of england" is also garbage. It was the NORMAN conquest. Normans were descendants of vikings and nordic/norse peoples who came to northern france and took part of it over. Then they assimilated into france but they werent considered "french".

[@fidelr599]

And now these days if it wasn't for the American and British. We would have been German my brothers. ...but now we're all happy to be free CHEERS. ..

[@arthemis1039]

Actually, we would have been Communists, because the Red Army would just have rolled over the Wehramcht, they took Berlin on their own.

[@oanhuuchuong2266]

British is number one, and French is number two.

[@cheddarsmanchego2479]

Spanish is number two.

[@viennic8592]

Spanish is 4th

[@viennic8592]

It's the second biggest colonial empire but including non colonial it's 4th

[@Fro7enDesigns]

***** The French empire combined was second in land mass, Spain was probably the first real colonizer with portugual.

[@Fro7enDesigns]

***** The French first and second empire are slightly bigger than the Spanish empire. Total Spanish Empire: 19.4 million km2 Total of French empire: 21.1 million km2 But you're right, Spain was ahead of France in most of the 19th century, and ahead of Britain. France also controlled Spain for a while and France had puppet stated like Mexico. After WW2, France had the Largest empire in the world and I think still does in territories. It really varies a lot. Spanish were first to colonize before brits or french. But the British at the max of their empire had a total land mass bigger than any other previous empire.

[@scorpioninpink]

All those territories who chose independence over France are not shit hole country.

[@Vitoscaletta473]

They're shithole contries

[@some12watch30]

Rubbish video. France owned all of Europe and beyond with Napoleon and it is widely spoken in Canada, except from the british colonial ghetto's.

[@WarriorWildhead1337]

Wut.

[@kevinspee7013]

Dont speak so gloriously about France... The video was quite inaccurate but dont just gloat in the widespreadness of your country

[@Raisonnance.]

@@kevinspee7013 he is right...

[@kevinspee7013]

@@Raisonnance. To a certain extent, but certainly not completely

[@AitheinOfQuartz]

You're clearly misinformed, France never owned all of North America, Spain reached the Southwest before France could, even if you ignore UK possessions in the East. However, they had a lot more than was shown in this video; that's what you get when you skip Napoleon and 70 years of territory changes.

[@maximeschmitt2094]

There's a huge difference between French colonization and British colonization: the French didn't colonize their colonies. There are just 2 exceptions: Canada (but only 60,000 French people when France ceded this colony to England) and Algeria (but all the French left this country in 1962).

[@EdinburghFive]

Colonization is more than the settling of people in other people's lands. It is by definition also: the action of appropriating a place or domain for one's own use. France was clearly a colonist imperial power.

[@TheNecropolis20]

of course bahamas is still a common wealth realm. but the commonwealth is no longer a political union. its now a international organization. the UK no longer has political control over the other countries.

[@TheNecropolis20]

The commonwealth ceased to be a Political union after 1958 when the United Kingdom joined the European union. Canada Signed the North American Accord with the United states in March of 2010. its now in a defacto personal Union with the United States. India and Pakistan are thinking of Merging and becoming the South Asian Union. and Eventually Australia and New zealand will join to form a Oceanic union. Hong kong and Macao will be annexed by china and reintegrated with Guangdong province in 2047

[@AitheinOfQuartz]

French Guinea is independent...

[@BrotherJohndonski]

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[@hmonghmoobkyly6647]

et le genocide hmong dans tout ca

[@frankph5]

Rubbish. All North America, including Canada and the U.S was French. Nearly all Europe was French as well and I include Russia as we occupied them for nearly 7 months. Plus Britain, French Plantagenêts ruled for more than 300 years.