Why France Hides Countries Outside Its Borders

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[@Weisior]

Fun fact: if youre from a country belonging to the Schengen zone, so nearly all of EU countries, you can go to Bora Bora, Madera, Reunion, Azores and many more French or Portugal overseas territories without the passport, just with your ID.

[@horiabalaban5967]

You can do that if you're from any country in the EU(it doesn't need to be in the schengen zone)

[@Simon-rc5sf]

@@horiabalaban5967 Schengen Zone encompasses non EU countries like switzerland

[@horiabalaban5967]

@@Simon-rc5sf did i say otherwise? He implied that if you're outside of the schengen zone, you can't travel to those places by only having an ID; that's false...

[@lawrenceralph7481]

Colonials have their perks.

[@williamvivish3973]

You actually need a passport if you go to french polynesia, even if you take off from the shengen zone. Reason being that you technically need to leave the zone and re-enter when the plane stops for refuelling, which is not avoidable because of the distance. Maybe one day when planes can go further in one trip !

[@maxbuster1508]

Looked into the Children of the Creuse case and I was surprised to find that the French National Assembly actually took responsibility and guilt for it in 2014.

[@ludoviccasteleyn6867]

Surprised?

[@florianribault83]

Wich is funny because at the time the president that was in charge was as dependable as a vegetable and just as active/reactive we even joked around calling him "flambi" wich aptly translate to "the pudding"

[@maxbuster1508]

@@ludoviccasteleyn6867 I never get my hopes too high, so an actual acknowledgement is a surprise

[@theprettypetard2524]

@@maxbuster1508 are you really surprised about french people surendering to criticism though?

[@maxbuster1508]

@@theprettypetard2524 What do you mean?

[@andyc9902]

Every thing is fun and games until Penguins start speaking french

[@dominiqueroche4231]

Oh goodness, I ran into a couple of them that have started speaking French!

[@alainbis3456]

@@dominiqueroche4231 hey, I'm French, I should know, they were from Quebec (lol)

[@Sylgwael]

haha excellent j'adore.

[@jaisonsimon]

Kowalski, analysis

[@andyc9902]

@@jaisonsimon ❤️

[@masterbait99]

Good thing about france territory is they have same right as france citizen, unlike some US territory

[@helpfultips1533]

Only American Soma

[@apeman9238]

@@helpfultips1533 American Samoa*

[@helpfultips1533]

@@apeman9238 thank you

[@skepticcat2443]

@@helpfultips1533 doesn't Puerto Rico also lack the right to vote?

[@ga5682]

In theory yes but in reality teachers accused of rape/sexual misconduct are sent to french overseas to not fire them

[@gnougnougnou7112]

A positive point (yeah France as many country is sometimes fucked up: nukes, chloredecones etc.) is that the government now protects these areas a lot, like Guyana forest against illegal gold extractions, island reefs, etc.

[@JS-pb6gb]

Does France have the right to tell another group of people what to do with their land?

[@guguss3804]

@@JS-pb6gb These groups of people voted to remain part of France and have full French citizenship. So yes, France has the right to tell them what to do because they are not « other » groups of people like you wrote, they are French.

[@SanLeMans]

@@JS-pb6gb the people want to be apart of France, it’s a huge privilege especially for their situations.

[@JS-pb6gb]

@@SanLeMans I always find it funny how other people always say what others want.

[@JS-pb6gb]

Secondly, I’m sure if the people actually thought in through that they can control the government and control the land and fishing rights they would be more prosperous than with France. If what you say about them wanting to be apart of France is true. Thirdly, France is not such a good country to have controlling you just loom at reunion and their issues with unemployment etc.

[@tristanmignon6182]

him: concerned about bora bora being few hundred KM away from those atolls me: what about vegas?

[@aaverycat]

Thats probably why the US military came up with the phrase: “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas” That includes radiation from the nearby test sites.

[@flodzz]

Yes and anyway there were French nuclear tests in Algeria which is not so far from europe

[@backintimealwyn5736]

lol they are always so chocked that France did nuclear testings on unhabited islands in the middle of the pacific and they forget that they did theirs on their own inhabited land poisonning their own underground waters -_- "please fellow americans , look the other way, boo France bad, bad , bad , bad France"

[@tawuquoiquoi3673]

Didnt know vegas was a french oversea territory

[@Petriefied0246]

The British originally intended to set off their first nuclear weapon at RAF Spade Adam in Cumbria, which is near to the city of Carlisle. They sensibly moved it to Western Australia.

[@arthur1995dep]

great video, just one thing moruroa is 1500 km away from bora bora, same distance that chernobyl is from france ( fukushima is only 230 km away from tokyo. I just mean Bora bora is safe come and enjoy !!!

[@francoisferey5910]

ne soyez pas jaloux de la France,je suis métis-vièt ,j'habite en nouvelle-calédonie,je me sent complètement français et içi c'est la france nous sommes français et nous leresteront

[@tonyhawk94]

Merci camarade, vive la France, de métropole à l'outremer. 👏 🇫🇷

[@azetismestudio3059]

Je doute fortement que la Nouvelle Calédonie accepte de rester française lors du prochain référendum en décembre. Après les divers confinements je pense qu'il y a un ras le bol bien de la France bien plus important que lors du deuxième référendum. Vous en pensez quoi ?

[@BYROXI5000]

@@azetismestudio3059 si la nouvelle caledonie devient independante, elle n'arrivera pas à avoir une autonomie. La France n'est pas un pays qui se laisse faire. Si la France décide de la faire independante, elle utilisera surement le droit de retirer des entreprises, des contrats maritimes... bref, elle va detruire l'economie pour que la Calédonie regrette et souhaite redevenir française.

[@augustindavid8649]

@@BYROXI5000 Regrets ou pas la Calédonie ne redeviendra pas française si elle choisit de ne plus l'être au prochain référendum. Il n'y aura pas de "punition". Par contre oui il n'y aura plus les même liens avec la métropole donc plus de subventions, plus d'intérêt particulier des entreprises françaises, moins de garanties, moins de stabilité... Bref économiquement c'est à peu près certainement négatif et le destin des îles qui ont choisis l'indépendance de par le monde le prouve.

[@leroisumerien6463]

@@BYROXI5000 problème est que si elle deviens indépendante elle pas sous bannière chinoise donc elle s'en bat un peu les couilles de la France avec le support chinois, selon comment cela ce décante, cette situation peut mener à une guerre

[@zagrebvolgograd2288]

Very good video, but "wards of the state" has never meant in any way, that those childrends "belonged" to the state. "Pupilles de la Nation" (orphan from war) or "Pupille de l'État" are under the responsability of the State, more specificaly the "ASE" (Childhood Proetction ). The Childrens of Creuse was a terrible, misguided action done by the French governement exposing those kids to racism, exclusion and worse, but the childrens never "belonged" to the State. As a french social worker, thois was my 2 cents ;)

[@weareallbornmad410]

Kidnaping children from their family and shipping them overseas as "free labor" is a little more than "misguided."

[@liquidcockatoo1655]

@@weareallbornmad410 Except that the statement of free labor is just that. A statement here, in a video. In a video that states a pupille de la nation is owned by the state, which is in itself a major messed-up mistake, enough to discredit at the very least that section of the script.

[@marcbuisson2463]

@@weareallbornmad410 Something even worse is that Pupille de la Nation is the status of kids whose parents died in service of the country, so kids from soldiers especially, but also from parents who died due to terrorists acts. Orphans from holocausts victims, from résistants were included. Usually, they have some advantages, especially the fact that their studies are completely paid by the state. There were also a few schools and highschools, notably military who are partially made for them and are amongst the best in France. It's a legacy from ww1 and ww2. Which makes what happened with these poor kids even more shameful. Aaaand having checked, they were indeed pupille de l'état and not pupille de la nation and my comment is useless ;w;

[@georgeptolemy7260]

Owned Vs "Under the responsibility of" is an interestingly useless distinction.

[@weareallbornmad410]

@@georgeptolemy7260 Right?

[@erichpizer1]

I travelled from South Africa to Reunion just 4 hours from Johannesburg and found it so interesting this French European sizeable island so close so far out of its way thriving like a little piece of France on my doorstep in the Southern Hemisphere. I have been to Paris only in France so it added to some of the atmosphere. Don't forget the former size of the empire had included Vietnam / Indo-french china and Mauritius , Rodrigue etc

[@Aaronit0]

As well as Madagascar (which is huge), Algeria (which is actually the 10th biggest country on earth) and didn't existed before France (good to remember them especially during those times 🙄), as well as a huge chunk of India And I wouldn't even talk about our former African colonies. Just check former French empire, and you would be surprised just how much France had. Don't forget, we also had Louisiane, which is 1/2 of actual USA, and we had half of nowadays Canada too.

[@GTAVictor9128]

Not only that, but France actually had the audacity to demand their former colonies back after WW2, after receiving firsthand experience what it's like to be occupied by a foreign power.

[@Aaronit0]

@@GTAVictor9128 Well if you've seen the video, it's not really an occupation, as culture isn't really neither imposed neither repressed. Secondly, France have often referendum on whether we should leave or not, so inhabitants chose not to and stay within France. Because that's another major point, they are not considered as inferior lands with less power, less rights and less aids, they are considered France itself. And finally, they are critical points to defend France so it never has to be occupied by a foreign power as you pointed out. So all in all, they aren't just colonies. Aren't oppressed. And aren't made inferiors in any way.

[@GTAVictor9128]

@@Aaronit0 Nowadays it may not be, but I was mainly referring to Vietnam that definitely wanted independence while France wanted to take Vietnam back by force.

[@caven7056]

@@Aaronit0 you must be on some high to think Algeria didn't exist before france

[@Kualinar]

So, even more than England, France can truly say that the Sun never set on his territory, not just it's Empire.

[@judeironheart7252]

hey now, come on, that was King Felipe's claim!

[@nunyabiznes33]

@@judeironheart7252 *Hapsburg noises* ?

[@Egilhelmson]

France was legally an empire well before Great Britain was. Of course, that empire included Picardy, Gascony, Brittany, Normandy, etc., and disappeared when France rationalized its “Metropole” organization in the French Revolution, before the First Empire; before the “rationalism”, individual regions charged others import duties (which is why there WAS a Revolution, after a famine made it impossible for the King to pay his bills without getting the Estates General to raise taxes).

[@pierren___]

The Sun King never settled.

[@frayien]

The Sun never sets on the Republic

[@Kameeho]

This was a great video. Now I require part 2. Been looking into France lately, and the more you dig into it, the more fascinating it becomes. Especially in the modern era. They are a classic case where everyone mainly due to the English has given them a bad reputation for surrendering. When you look at it from above, makes you question. Did they really lose? And to be frank. When it comes to old empires, out of all of them, I think I would have declared France the winner. Being the only one that still maintains large areas of territories. Not only that, consider their history, and time and time again with a change of government and system, rebellions and occupations. They somehow still manage to cling to these territories. And then in the current era, France is the only nation that outright does mostly whatever it feels like. And something you could have mentioned in the video: French Guiana is one of the main bases for training the French Foreign Legion. Talking about the Foreign Legion, you should make a video about that one day!

[@noddybebetrain9896]

It's because we live in an anglophone world. But yes, France didn't really lose in WW2, after the war they became the largest country in western europe, the country with the largest EEZ in the world. They had 30 years of economic growth which enabled them to sustain their empire (they gave up the empire because of the new world order against imperialism, unlike the UK who had to give up their holdings because they couldn't afford it anymore). And they got to keep their capital intact. Their successes in the past made sure Paris wouldn't be bombarded like London and Berlin. It's just that beautiful. And from de gaulle to macron, french presidents are able to maintain their grip on the republic which means they can be more independent of the US unlike other NATO countries. Their own nuclear weapons program, refused to join in US' military adventurism like in 2003 Iraq, etc.

[@benjaminlamey3591]

well, at dunkirk, the french soldier gave their life to allow the brits to escape. And overall, the WW2 has been won by Russia mainly in both europe and pacific. not alone, but they did the job with the help of the others. So americans and their jokes are the usual french bashing because they have no clue. it is easier than having a proper efficient and free education system to teach the reality ... And french decolonization hasn´t been peacefull everywhere, in algeria and vietnam, it got pretty dirty. luckily in the other areas of teh former empire it went without war at least.

[@Hectopath2006]

@@benjaminlamey3591 sorry but the USSR did absolutely nothing related to the Pacific front of the war, unless if you're talking about the invasion of Manchuria that happened right at the end (and Manchuria isn't even in the Pacific)

[@youtube-handle-are-a-joke]

Speaking about the French, there are some fun facts, like the first American fighter pilots, including blacks were in the French air force during WWI, upon returning to the US, the black pilots were denied serving in the new USAF. The French Renault FT tank was the first US Army tank, which was used by the US army to crush the US WWI veteran hunger strike in Washington.

[@RuiRuichi]

@@benjaminlamey3591 Russia and Japan had an uneasy agreement not to declare war on each other to secure their flanks only until the last moment. Russia joined in the pacific theatre at the last moments by invading Manchuria only when the US was already at Japan's doorstep in Okinawa after liberating most of South East Asia, Taiwan, Pacific Island Chains in bloody campaigns along the Aussie and New Zealand 0forces, Dutch and British guerillas and Partisans of each country. By the time McArthur landed in the Philippines more than half of the Philippines mainly smaller towns and rural areas were already liberated by filipino and american guerilla groups like my grandfather who was a guerilla fightwr in dumaguete.

[@thewatching6504]

I hate to inform you but French Guiana 🇬🇫 is literally in the same hemisphere as France, according to your map.

[@robertbowers5637]

What a silly headline title for this video. These parts of France are in no way hidden, and they are actually within the borders of France, not outside them. You may not have heard of them, in which case you should learn more about the world before making these videos, but they are not hidden and are well known to many other people. As for whether it's strange to include Pacific islands as an integrated part of a main country, isn't that what the US of A does with Hawaii and Guam? Bora Bora is only 20% further from Paris than Guam is from Washington DC.

[@laszlobandi6456]

I guess it was an opposite for the russia video

[@deusexaethera]

If you really think that remote oceanic islands inhabited by enormous flocks of birds have no strategic importance, then you have never heard of bird guano, which was used as fertilizer before we figured out how to manufacture the stuff from crude oil.

[@teresarivasugaz2313]

* sighs in Peruvian * guano made us rich for a bit, but 90% of the country never saw a penny of it

[@jakobachenrainer]

So you can take a flight from Paris to the south Pacific and it'll still be considered domestic.

[@Aaronit0]

Yup, my grandmother (metropolitan that was a teacher in Tahiti schools for 25+ years) used to do 24 hours flights (Bordeaux, to Paris, to Los Angeles, to Tahiti) to go from metropole to tahiti and vice-versa.

[@benjaminlamey3591]

there is no direct flight, and none making the stop in guiana

[@arthurvilain7270]

There are no direct flights from metropolitan France to the pacific islands due to shear distance, but there are indeed domestic flights across the Atlantic Ocean, and even to Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean. Phone calls are also considered local.

[@Zhest-yu8rw]

@@benjaminlamey3591 There are flight from Paris to Cayenne on daily basis, there are now direct flight from Tahiti to Paris, longest in the world domestic and from Paris to Tahiti via French Carribean island with French Bee and Air Tahiti Nui.

[@benjaminlamey3591]

@@Zhest-yu8rw did not know that these exist now.

[@tobiwan001]

Everyone was testing nukes in the Pacific. The US blew up the Bikini atoll, the UK tested in Australia. Of those three the US would actually be the only one that has enough empty space to do it at home.

[@mostneuter]

And they did, right next to Las Vegas.....

[@tobiwan001]

@@mostneuter but they cleaned up there. Unlike Bikini Atoll…

[@Egilhelmson]

@@tobiwan001 They did not clean up the Trinity site, radioactivity did. And, by virtue of this video, France probably did it at home, as well.

[@parodyclip36]

@@Egilhelmson Algeria was home

[@Reddotzebra]

Except France did do it at home, they literally used two islands they wholly owned.

[@lfmsimoes1]

I am Portuguese and I had my honeymoon in Martinique (small Caribbean island). I loved it because, even though not having the best beaches/hotels in the Caribbean (still good nonetheless), We felt it was quite safe to freely travel around the island, eat on any local restaurant, visit some farms, villages, museums, etc. Much better than being in a "bubble for tourists", on a very poor/dangerous place.

[@Anthonydu01630]

It’s funny because the french carribean island Martinique, guadeloupe (and also Guiana wich isn’t an island but anyways) are the most dangerous places in France. Im from Reunion Island and it’s also dangerous but not as much as these 3 because they are close to latin america, were all the cocaine/crack come from, guyana is literally at the border of Brazil and suriname, and the crime level is like 2x higher than the worst places in metropolitan France like Marseille, North of Paris and some cities in Paris suburbs. But yeah, it’s still not as dangerous as Latin America or South Africa for exemple.

[@Desi365]

@@Anthonydu01630 c'est faux, Tony. Il y a pas mal de problèmes de criminalité en Guadeloupe mais beaucoup beaucoup moins en Martinique. Pas le le même passé.

[@jay1st1st]

The children were all "born under X", their mother decided to give them away at their birth...Orfans with no family. Most of them do have a family now, and are actively searching for their real mother. I know, I live in la Reunion.

[@lucaswoo3895]

Bullshit va revoir tes sources stp , la plupart des enfants étaient arrachés de leurs familles et parfois enlevés dans la rue même , l'état a profité de la situation des parents souvent pauvres et ne sachant pas lire ni écrire pour leurs promettre un avenir ''meilleur'' et leurs faire signer des documents leurs permettant de devenir propriétaire des enfants sans qu'ils le sachent

[@ThatOneDude7]

I'm french and the guy who replied is french and we can both tell you this guy has no idea what he's talking about.

[@french-9743]

à Jay, Non ces enfants n'étaient pas des bébés nés sous X !!! Ils étaient plus âgés. En revanche, ils ont été abandonnés par leurs parents, ou vivaient dans des conditions sanitaires épouvantables.

[@lebourse]

@@lucaswoo3895 Ce que vous racontez est inepte. Ces enfants étaient placés par la DDASS, ils venaient de famille où les problèmes sociaux, d'alcool, étaient nombreux. Les familles dans lesquelles ils étaient placés étaient rémunérée pour cela, cela constituait un revenu de complément dans cette France rurale très pauvre, c'est un fait, et il est certain que certaines de ces familles d'accueil n'ont pas toujours eu des comportements exemplaires, mais c'était loin d'être le cas de chacune d'entre elles. Et en tant que familles d'accueil, elles ne devenaient pas "propriétaires" de ces enfants, l'esclavage a été aboli en 1848 sur l'ensemble du territoire français, il l'était depuis bien plus longtemps sur le territoire métropolitain.

[@Anthonydu01630]

@@lebourse Facho fâché

[@Alf973]

As an inhabitant of French Guiana I’m quite surprise It’s featured here. We’re so unknown in the UE apart the occasional mention from the space industry.

[@Zhest-yu8rw]

French Guiana is awesome and bigger than expected, in fact bigger than 16 EU Members States on its own.

[@planteruines5619]

@@Zhest-yu8rw it's so big that it has approximatly the size of la nouvelle Aquitaine (wich is a region of France ) but only coast is inhabited and forest block

[@SanLeMans]

You’d find that a lot of non EU members know about French Guiana, became like a “fun fact” type

[@planteruines5619]

@@SanLeMans we should introduce this in France

[@TheGobou77]

oh don't worry, i know of where you live, Alf973

[@LinhNguyen-jo7ir]

The sun never set on the French Empire =))))

[@dudesumting]

Growing up in Newfoundland I remember the French class taking a trip to st pierre miquolon every year

[@donaldvanvliet9039]

You seem to find a lot of things ‘strange’ that are actually quite logical.

[@Hspryd]

He seems like he discovering a world without history and geopolitics. I see nothing strange cause everything got meaning in their doing. Also Atoll isn't a confusing word if it means what it's used for...

[@louisazraels7072]

just uses the world for sensationalism

[@jensbronton]

exactly. i tried to find a point with the narrative in the video. and couldn’t.

[@Thebreakdownshow1]

From one creator to another keep posting good content. Millions of subscribers are coming. Great video.

[@OBFYT]

Thank you!

[@adriennefloreen]

I'm also a KZbinr and I agree. I've never heard of some of these places, even from KZbinrs who claim to have traveled to every obscure place in the world, if you can go to these places without a passport, you should do travel vlogs there, food eating vlogs etc.

[@abadyr_]

ward of the state does not mean slave to the state. It means responsibility of the state. Such as children from anonymous birth, found abandoned, unregistered etc. Most of the time they are looking for adoptive parent for them. Still, the relocations to the creuse were messed up, but everyone acknowledge this.

[@MadManchou]

I don't know about this case, but I get the feeling the "free labour" part gets kind of misconstrued from french law allowing family members including minors to work without a salary in the family business/farm. Which is literally the reason France has 2 months summer break in school : so (historically) children could help their parents in the fields during the harvest, and thus not skip school.

[@cyrus7805]

What you said about the "Wards of the Nation" who are children who "BELONG" to the State is simply outrageous and a real insult to what this actually means. Those children absolutely don't belong to anyone or anything. You make it sound like a horrible thing when it's literally a great thing for many of those wards. To make it clear, this status is a privileged usually given to children whom their father or mother died for France as a military or in duty in any kind of public service, or who were killed by terrorists. It gives some insurances to those kids that the States will pay for their studies and to make sure their basic needs are fulfilled. It is meant to help those kids. What you said about this status is really shameful... Now about les Enfants de la Creuse, it is completely other subject, absolutely unrelated to this status, but mostly related to a very poorly and cruel way of dealing with some demographic problems in both la Creuse and la Réunion. This event is a disgrace for France and the National Assembly has recognized their fault in this back in 2014.

[@Wolf-hh4rv]

France effectively protects the ecology of the waters surrounding it’s South Indian Ocean islands with their rich fish stocks... by contrast much of the same sea life off the coast of S Africa has been almost completely wiped out by Korean, Taiwanese , Filipino and Japanese trawlers... Reason? The SA navy doesn’t have the skills to take their ships out of harbor.

[@amigosgi1847]

Now I know why French Guyana is being used in Battlefield 2042 with space platforms

[@Sadzeih]

It's the launch center of the ESA so yeah that's why :P

[@Zhest-yu8rw]

@@Sadzeih ESA and Roscosmoss via Partnership.

[@himlingpatrice]

An important thing to note concerning the "children of the Creuse". The idea of sending them to metropolitan France coming from Michel Debré, former Prime Minister and at the time deputy for Reunion Island. Yes. The person behind the transfer of these children was an elected official from their native island. The goal was not simply to repopulate rural areas but mostly to fight the demographic explosion of the Reunion Island. To be clear. Yes, the method was clearly inhuman, cruel and stupid. But the basic idea was to help the development of the Island. "Hell is paved with good feelings."

[@vperez4796]

What is the opinion of the childrens and the children's families?

[@Hajrudinnn]

@@vperez4796 all the childrens were born under "X" meaning that their parents would declare them orphans. Wha'ts very messed up about the video is that "ward of the State" (pupille de la nation) doesn't mean at all that children belongs to France, but that the tutorat and complete education, security,futur... of each child is taken in charge by the french governement. Basically orphans are raised by public funds. What was messed up is moving them out of the island for a demographic purpose while thinking that they would stay in a rural, depleted area

[@planteruines5619]

It's reallly messed up , but we can't do much more now (just , if we have something in the line of démographic boom in some place and an other dying we should move volunteer family)

[@french-9743]

@@Hajrudinnn Peut-être que certains de ces enfants étaient des enfants abandonnés nés sous X (je n'en ai jamais entendu parler alors que j'ai suivi tous les articles, toutes les émissions TV, et même un colloque avec des témoignages de ces enfants devenus adultes). Si quelques uns étaient des sous X, alors, l'immense majorité étaient des enfants de cas sociaux incapables de les élever, dans un état de délabrement, de sous nutrition, et en état sanitaire parfois grave.

[@french-9743]

@himlingpatrice Pour avoir plutôt bien suivi cette affaire du temps où elle a éclaté, ce n'était pas du tout une idée de Michel Debré. C'était l'idée d'une assistante sociale et d'un haut fonctionnaire métropolitain (qui étaient amants). Leur décision a été acceptée par la DASS (il est probable que le haut fonctionnaire en question était le directeur de la DASS locale, la mémoire me fait défaut). En revanche : oui, cette initiative s'inscrivait parfaitement dans le cadre d'un plan appelé BUMIDOM qui consistait à favoriser et aider la migration vers la métropole pour (comme tu le dis) repeupler la France en particulier la Creuse et vider un peu le trop plein démographique de la Réunion. Sans en être certain, le haut fonctionnaire en question était originaire de la Creuse. C'est en tout cas l'endroit où ce couple s'est fait muter ou a pris sa retraite.

[@Petriefied0246]

Interesting video, but disappointed by the ignorance about radioactivity. The USA's Nevada test range was next to Las Vegas, so it's not unusual.

[@AMachine2020]

Don’t also forget that there has been since the 80s the government started to recognize and atone for some of their past colonist behavior thanks to influx of key political and cultural figures from all these overseas territories (and départements). It’s not all rosy but it’s better than before…

[@UltiK]

Nice video ! That was really nice :) As a Frenchman, it's cool to see this type of content for the English speakers.

[@sunriseshell]

Birds AND penguins. That's like Africa, they have big cats AND lions.

[@hugoportella6540]

Bit uncritical regarding the nuclear aspect For me it's really oriented Most of countries equipped with nuclear weapons made tests quite devastating for environment. That's the problem, it's not about France

[@jonescity]

**view from space** Astronaut: "Wait a minute....It's all France?!" Other Astronaut: **cocks gun** "it always has been" **shoots**

[@TheGobou77]

Other Astronaut: *arme le pistolet* "toujours été" *tire*

[@shadow2000]

@@TheGobou77 Arme la baguette ! Voyons ! Un peu de dignité patriotique diantre !

[@TheGobou77]

@@shadow2000 ah oui c'est vrai, dsl

[@theazertoto6981]

@@TheGobou77 Surtout qu'une baguette cuite de plus de 3 jours et laissée à l'air ambiant est bien plus mortelle qu'un pistolet

[@harry8912]

On the Battlefield 2042 Beta the only map we can play is a French Guiana one and you know what the two main features are? A huge tornado and a Rocket Launch by the ESA and the CNES. Now it makes more sense as to why the French and EU presence is there.

[@andriisenkiv9898]

Soo, the sun never sets on France?

[@tommarch.4493]

like the UK, it doesnt, yes

[@thomasluck5955]

@@tommarch.4493 the UK is barely even a shadow of what it once was.

[@Mmjk_12]

@@thomasluck5955 UK has the most oversea territories in the world, the commonwealth, Europe's second largest economy and most powerful military, it is still most definitely relevant.

[@himanshugurjar9002]

@@Mmjk_12 Largest military is Russia in Europe. And second place is arguable between france and UK. But practically its france

[@Mmjk_12]

@@himanshugurjar9002 Russia has the largest but I said most powerful, UK has a higher annual spending on its military on much more modern technology

[@Colk13]

I liked this video however I can’t understand the title, like who was preventing you to know about these territories ? They are not secret and are really willing to share their stories and culture, and also at 2:00 when you say that kerguelens islands are useless, you said yourself they are home to a large biodiversity and so aren’t useless at all, mostly for science and nature.

[@chrisholland1504]

"I can't understand the title..". Ah oui, c'est le bait de clique!

[@dylanshaffer2184]

Please do a video of the US territories, specifically Puerto Rico, Guam, CNMI, And American Samoa, and the USVI. Many Americans unfortunately don’t know that they are our fellow Americans

[@baptiste4438]

And some of the inhabitants of these territories dont have the same rights as US citizens... pretty interesting indeed. On the opposite, all the citizens of France oversees territories have full french and european citizenship

[@dylanshaffer2184]

@@baptiste4438 ya it’s messed up, they are either second class citizens or nationals

[@radoslavstonewick8773]

@@baptiste4438 so true. Got hit in the feels. Raised in P.R. and we don't even get to vote for the president if we are on the island yet we have to serve the US army as a regular citizen.

[@genghiskhan7703]

@@baptiste4438 american Samoa doesnt want to become a territory because they have laws where only samoans can own property, if they become a territory the constitution would end those laws.

[@mylesgarcia4625]

@@radoslavstonewick8773 Yeah, but you get your own Miss Universe contestant. Isn't that what PR wants all along? LOL!!

[@matvyger7665]

Brilliant info. Another interesting fact is that the uk govt included France’s overseas territories when calculating the average temperature of France to deny British expats the winter heating allowance!

[@imienazwisko4219]

Immigrants*

[@arthurvilain7270]

​@@imienazwisko4219 "Expat" (or "emigrant") is actually the correct term here since we're talking from the point of view of the administration of the UK, the country those people left. They are "immigrants" in the eye of France, the country where they live.

[@JustAGuyWhoLikesStuff.]

@@arthurvilain7270 I mean sure, but it seems that no one else gets this treatment. Ask the Mexicans, or the Middle Eastern people.

[@matvyger7665]

@@thornil2231 a. We pay our taxes here now but b. It’s the uk govt that pays our pension, of which the winter heating allowance is a part.

[@pierren___]

Lmao damn Albions

[@ericcloud1023]

Great video! I comment for the algorithm! May it shine on your channel

[@LocalBroYT]

The French territory I’m most interested about is “St. Pierre and Miquelon”, since it’s the closest French territory to me. The fact that it is so close to Newfoundland island, Canada makes it more cool

[@ColePenner]

Thanks for the vid king, love it

[@Blaqjaqshellaq]

French Guiana was once a notorious penal colony that included Devil's Island!

[@AlexandreOliveira1974]

Papillon gave a thumbs up with a teary face.

[@elanthys]

@@AlexandreOliveira1974 only the one though :p

[@BRUH-lx3jv]

The British realizing that France has more random Islands that them: "How in the bloody hell did you keep all of those?"

[@smal750]

secret decolonization tactics

[@ebbeflisback4370]

New vid from my fellow scandinavian, time to grab the popcorn 🍿 :) Much love from Sweden!

[@ottodidakt3069]

bit of a stretch from Irish to fellow Scandinavian, historical roots put apart, don't you think ?

[@ebbeflisback4370]

@@ottodidakt3069 Sure. But he's Danish though...

[@nickbrown6457]

@@ebbeflisback4370 He definitely doesn't have an Irish accent. I thought he was Danish too.

[@ebbeflisback4370]

@@nickbrown6457 He's mentioned he's a Dane in one of his vids though...

[@Anna-pj8te]

@@ottodidakt3069 he’s danish.

[@goldyolvidobaroa]

As always, incredible content!

[@blackpheonix]

I thoroughly enjoyed this video, thanks!

[@bearsagainstevil]

The uk also has overseas territory islands and really it's a pretty good deal for French and British islands . No one else is going to invade them look what happened to Argentina when they tried that with the falklands . And these islands are great bases in a war

[@jkmcgregor7797]

The uk overseas territories are not considered the same someone from Gibraltar is not seen as the same as someone from london.

[@brunol-p_g8800]

Before being British, the Malouines islands were French in the first place, then Spanish from 1767 until Argentina’s independence from Spain in 1816, at which point Argentina said it was an hereditary from Spain and as such the Malouines were theirs. The UK controls the islands from 1833 at which point they sent British colons.

[@JacobFlies]

Really cool no idea how large their island empire was, I haven’t looked but have u made any video on frances influence and control/operations in Africa?

[@tommarch.4493]

^no he didnt

[@johnrambo2706]

The French still own their colonies in Sub Saharan Africa albeit unofficially. Sub saharan french colonies are independent in name only when you realise France control almost everything in their former sub saharan colonies.

[@surronzak8154]

@@johnrambo2706 Plus they need to pay us colonial taxes, c'est vraiment n'importe quoi ...

[@ogamiitto8627]

@@johnrambo2706 Come on, it's not that simple. Of course France keeps a huge influence in its former subsaharian colonies (and currently plays a crucial military role against fundamentalists), but "Françafrique" intrigues are way more complex. You'd be surprised, for instance, of Gabon's former president Omar Bongo financial influence on the french politicial leaders over 70 to 00 decades.

[@le57erguapo43]

Great geography and infos. Thanks, obf!

[@vegard9908]

Penguins = birds, so basically the islands you refer to at the beginning of the vid should be specified as being inhabited by birds in general. A plethora of birds. Some of which are capable of flight, and some of which are not capable of flight. In this case, those not capable of flight are known as penguins. There are, as we know, other birds also not capable of flight, but those are not relevant in this context. Regardless they are birds, all of them... ;)

[@dimiathan]

This is why I love the EU and I call it my home. I can move in places that are located in 4 different continents and never have to worry about visa or something like this. I can just go to the local town office, register and become a resident in a few mins just like I did in Austria, Germany or the UK (when it was still part of the EU).

[@ElijahEystberg]

a visa isn't that hard to use tbh. And I don't feel like the various downsides of the EU are justified by it's upsides. But I respect your right to your opinion

[@uchennanwogu2142]

yep, got to love colonialism

[@Mmjk_12]

because Guyana and new Caledonia are so European

[@dimiathan]

@@uchennanwogu2142 How is this colonial? The time has passed, they have the chance to become independent. They keep on voting to remain part of France.

[@jaidoni.vincent6773]

@@Mmjk_12 Guyana and French Guiana are two different places. Diana is an English-speaking independent country, while French Guiana belongs to France

[@thegermanshot5651]

So because of this, could a French passport holder be able to live, work and travel freely within any of these territories simply because they were French ? Similarly to how a US citizen can just pack up and move to the USVI, Guam or others ?

[@SA-nu2so]

Probably, not just french ppl, any European

[@rahhuuuu2321]

yes. It’s literally the point of this video. Reunion island is as French as Paris or any other cities in Metropolitan France.

[@Aaronit0]

Not only you don't even need a passport or a visa for the majority of them, but it's also available for Europeans (in the Union) as well as most of them are in the Schengen Space. Which mean no visa needed, and not even passport needed. As a German for example, you could go and live there (in French Guyana or Réunion or Polynesia and such) tomorrow if you wanted to.

[@qwertyTRiG]

Some of overseas France is under special local laws, such as French Polynesia, which has its own president and currency, but most is considered simply part of France, just as French as Corsica.

[@thegermanshot5651]

@@Aaronit0 this just blows my mind as an American. I would love to be French just to experience this

[@MrAwesomeSaucem]

awesome vid as always man!

[@groovefam]

Great interesting work, keep it coming!

[@kingofrivia1248]

Its not shady at all. I think its an amazing thing france did. Britain should have definitely followed their lead for once and made their territorys fully part of core england

[@galatzy01]

Well it could be shady for any people who never bothered to open an atlas out of curiosity.

[@averagepeopleproductions7023]

Funny, i though about french guyana as soon as you mentioned you left something out Also knew about rhe military base This video was very good

[@tommarch.4493]

(well on his first map, it was the one that he left out). And generally, they don' tfind anything interesting about Wallis And Futuna for example.

[@ryann1427]

absolutely amazing video! good job!

[@cr3amyn3ll66]

Awesome video and great editing.

[@aurelien5747]

very nice to learn things about my own country, great video

[@hugoyu2001]

Thanks for the awesome video. Every term you mentioned that I do not understand and was about to Google when you explained them right after. I always thought these islands are just owned by France but not France proper (as in being first class citizen if you live there).

[@didierlemoine6771]

u cant be second class citizen in France if u r born on France territory :)

[@tiefblau2780]

I didnt know penguins and birds mate in France, must be an expensive trip.

[@dominiqueroche4231]

they go to the mainland on their honeymoon.

[@ste76539]

"Birds and penguins..." Errr, last time I checked, penguins ARE birds...

[@Maarten8867]

That's just a matter of how to want to define things.

[@ste76539]

@@Maarten8867 No, it's a matter of fact. Penguins are birds. You can deny that all you want, it won't change the fact and will only show your ignorance.

[@tritojean7549]

never heard of thoses creuse kids but it seems that it worked so well the region is still called the diagonal of the void

[@GTAVictor9128]

Creuse kids reminds me of the US assimilation program of native Americans - they'd find excuses to forcibly take away the native American children from the Indian reservations and put them up for adoption for American families and enroll them in American schools for native Americans.

[@matthewlujan844]

Great video, and info. I love when people make learning more interesting than most of my teachers did.

[@ceber54]

The Clipperton island have a very interesting history.

[@gamermapper]

BTW can you travel there

[@jetaddicted]

No you legally can’t unless you ask permission from the French government as it is a reserve yet you can find many videos of mostly American sailors happily disrespecting the rule.

[@gamermapper]

@Roger it's just that it'd be cool to visit every single french territory

[@erdogay4949]

Brit who thought that UK still an Empire left the chat

[@seriouslywhatever3234]

Honestly France having 3 Islands where nothing but mating happens. Sounds extremely normal when considering French.

[@francoise9056]

French penguins 🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧

[@simonbroberg969]

Concerned about a 200 distance between an the atol they used for the A bomb tests? Not worried about Los Vegas at all.... Frances 200 bomb test in that Atol V 1,021 nuclear tests in Nevada... I guess it's because you don't like Yanks (Neither do the US Government by the looks of it)

[@daniele.5163]

Thanks for the video, subbed!

[@christophecocqueel4672]

Dope document. Nice job. Thanks.

[@DeviilReaper]

Saying 'Birds & Penguins' implies that Penguins are not birds...

[@somerandomuser5155]

Should have said Penguin and other birds

[@mylesgarcia4625]

But penguins do NOT fly.

[@robertfoulkes1832]

​@@mylesgarcia4625 Nor do ostriches, emus, kiwis etc. but they are also birds. Penguins do fly, but under water!

[@mylesgarcia4625]

@@robertfoulkes1832 Then they SWIM. Not FLY. Don't be absurd.

[@lithepear9129]

Lol you censored a penguin feeding his child 😂

[@relaxnation1773]

Nice video keep up the good work👍

[@awadoo4503]

Hey, I wanna say I love your content, that's it!

[@fredflintstoner596]

Mrs Richards: " I paid for a room with a view !" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam. " Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment?

[@hermitz0270]

the space thing in french guiana was the most interesting thing in this video imo

[@RidgyFive]

I love your videos they give me so much joy

[@flash98449]

The sun never sets in the French Empire

[@LukeBunyip]

Nice and succinct. As an Antipodean, I know you could spend an entire episode talking about just the Kanaky and New Caledonia.

[@supermannnblablabla]

"Space exploration is easier near the equator" Russia: lol.

[@arthurvilain7270]

Actually Russia (or rather the USSR at the time) was very aware of this, which is why they built their main space center in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. While still nowhere near the equator, it was basically the southernmost suitable location they had access to.

[@somerandomuser5155]

And to this day Kazakhstan still Lease baikonur To Russia

[@nicolas2419]

In fact, space exploration is really easier near the equator. A Soyuz rocket launched from Guyana can carry a larger load than one launched from Baikonur or Russia.

[@Gszarco94]

Excellent video! As a suggestion i would like to see a video about the Kerguelen islands, i find them so fascinating!

[@francoise4678]

In fact there are some videos about these islands, just type "Kerguelen islands" and you will find several videos, mostly in French and English ...

[@seanwilkinson8696]

Make certain to touch upon St. Pierre-Miquelon, the islands that are a bit of Continental France not far from Quebec and the Maritime provinces, where the joual/Quebecois dialect reigns over SP-M's Standard Français. Fun fact: in grade 5 or 6, I got the French territories and Prince Edward Island mixed up by misreading my school atlas. I wrote that PEI's capital was St. Pierre, and wondered what the little curved province was a part of. It's a long story that involves having a "map phobia"; I don't recall what this weirdness was sparked by, but I was 5 or 6, perhaps 7. My kingdom for a time machine... If I had to use a map or atlas, or point to a place on a rolldown wall map (the kind that advertised chocolate bars with illustrations in the far corners), I could only do it with the quickest of glances and peeking sidelong at pages from the atlas' corners, carefully revealing as much as my nerves tolerated.

[@PG-3462]

I live in Québec and many French people from Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon came to study at my school, and they speak as French people from France, not Québec french.

[@danmoriarty6901]

As someone from New England (US) I wish you dove into St Pierre, I just found out recently France is technically so close to Maine

[@dvdso]

Never heard such a funny pronunciation of the word Brazil

[@CallMeCJorDandy]

im from the southeast, i learned alot and realized something that i didnt know it waz that deep to think about and its very important to know, Thanks my man ✌️🇫🇷😚

[@cindybogart6062]

What an excellent video. A bit confusing @ time, but all in all very informative.

[@FostyFR]

How dare you expose our secrets... Actually it's cool to see people getting interested into france and perhaps breaking the surrender false image we have rn. I actually never had thought about people around the world not knowing about those territories cause it just seems normal here (we know them since we're very very young). Anyway, loved the video ^^ (and next time, highlight "Wallis and Futuna" too ;))

[@lebourse]

Mes grands-parents ont recueilli plusieurs enfants réunionnais qui avaient été placés en Lozère, un département qui a beaucoup de points en commun avec la Creuse. A aucun moment, ils n'ont été obligés de travailler à la ferme, à aucun moment ils n'ont été des "esclaves", ils venaient tous de familles avec de très importants problèmes sociaux, des familles où l'alcoolisme faisait des ravages. Certains ne se sont jamais adaptés et ont mal vécu les choses et sont retournés à la Réunion, d'autres ont eu un autre parcours de vie bien plus heureux et sont soit restés, soit repartis mais dans de meilleures conditions que celles qu'ils avaient laissées. Mais les choses sont autrement plus nuancées que le discours absolument ignoble et mensonger que vous tenez dans cette vidéo. Vos propos sont honteux.

[@elouandamoy8784]

C'est peut être le cas de certains d'entre eux, mais toujours est-il que c'était mauvais de la part du gouvernement de les enlever de leur lieu de naissance pour repeupler. Tes grands parents étaient sûrement des gens bien, mais il y a eu des enfants qui étaient maltraités.

[@lebourse]

@@elouandamoy8784 Parce que tu crois que dans les orphelinats ou dans les familles en dérives sociales et alcooliques c'était mieux? Mais là n'est pas le problème, la vidéo parle carrément d'esclavage. J'en ai marre de voir des anglo-saxons plaquer leurs propres problèmes historique sur tout et n'importe quoi pour essayer d'expliquer les choses. Non, il n'y a pas eu d'esclavage, pas plus que pour les propres enfants de ces familles qui travaillaient à la ferme de la même manière. Mais pour ça, il faut réfléchir autrement qu'en étant un vidéaste du 21ème siècle. A l'époque, dans ces départements, l'agriculture était peu mécanisée, tout se faisait à la main ou avec une traction animale. Par exemple, à 9 ans, ma mère gardait les vaches et c'était normal. Elle avait un toit sur la tête, était habillée et nourrie, allait à l'école et aidait sa famille.

[@les2sallesop705]

@@lebourse très bonne réponse

[@cyrus7805]

@lebourse merci, c'est vraiment la partie de la vidéo que je déteste le plus. Quand il dit que les enfants "APPARTIENNENT" à l'Etat, le mec n'a juste rien compris au principe de pupille de la nation. Et le fait qu'il ait été prétendument réduit en esclavage c'est vraiment n'importe quoi. C'est le problème sur KZbin où on peut dire n'importe quoi sans que personne ne vérifie.

[@alexandre526]

Ce n'est pas parce-que vos grands parents ont bien traité les enfants déportés dans les années 70 que c'était le cas partout. Et ce n'est pas juste un regard anglo-saxon porté sur une affaire française. Ce sont des historiens bien français qui ont fait état de ce qu'il s'est passé dans ces départements, et ont rendu compte du fiasco que cela était, avec des enfants effectivement maltraités et utilisés comme main d'oeuvre gratuite à outrance. Il faut savoir regarder son histoire en face, et cela n'empêche pas d'être fier de son pays ou de ses ancêtres

[@robertsas9001]

That was interesting! Learned something new today

[@StarWarsExpert_]

Wow this is a good channel! I have a question. At 5:12 is this island and the other really have it's own "giant lake"? I mean, as far as I can see on the first island there is a land border sorounding a lot of water and only 1 entrance. For Maraura there are more entrances.

[@Aaronit0]

It's called a lagoon, and not really a lake as salt waters "sips" through the sand (when there is no direct entrance, or submarine ways, or tidal "refill")

[@batoolzehra3941]

Your videos are amazing and you have got a new subscriber

[@gui18bif]

I'm Portuguese. In 1974 we were brainwashed into thinking we were the last remaining empire on earth and were forced to give our colonial possessions away, even though they didn't want / become worse off after departing us. (Example: Timor leste erupted into war and poverty, guinea also had a dictatorship, and Cape verde relies on us to this day) But France has this.

[@ZontarDow]

The thing is these territories where fully integrated into France, their peoples are French citizens who can freely move to Metropolitan France and the French can do the same, they have elected governments and have seats in the French National Assembly, the Portuguese Empire didn't have that relationship with your colonies.

[@TheGobou77]

wow, your country got it done badly

[@gui18bif]

@@ZontarDow thing is We did ...

[@ZontarDow]

@@gui18bif no, you didn't

[@BobKerns4111]

You didn't mention (because it doesn't quite fit your topic, but it does tie in), that France exploded 17 nuclear weapons in Algeria-before, after, and *during* the Algerian war for independence. This includes one that was detonated ahead of plan specifically to keep it out of the hands of coup plotters seeking to overflow De Gaulle. So France holds the distinction of being the second nation to explode a nuclear device on the soil of a nation it was fighting with. It was a test, not used against people, but nonetheless, people were exposed both from the event, and from the irradiated equipment and material left behind, which was not properly safeguarded nor the local population educated about.

[@PresidentEarth]

Thanks for making me learn stuff about my own country

[@paleoph6168]

5:38 The Licorne test was so messed up it blew clean off part of the clouds and froze them in place

[@NLaertes]

USA: We are the only superpower left... France: Excusez moi...

[@TheGobou77]

*coughs in french*

[@Rakitsune]

Great video!

[@Bb13190]

Actually, Terre Adélaïde is not French territory but a French claim. The antartic treaty freezes all claims by signatory nations and allow only for scientific or touristic venture.