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- Etymology
- Pun
- History
- Charles de Gaulle's presidency (1958–1969)
- Georges Pompidou's presidency (1969–1974)
- Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's presidency (1974–1981)
- François Mitterrand's presidency (1981–1995)
- Jacques Chirac's presidency (1995–2007)
- Nicolas Sarkozy's presidency (2007–2012)
- Francois Hollande's presidency (2012–2017)
- Emmanuel Macron's presidency (2017–present)
- Features from the Cold War
- African cell
- Franc zone
- Cooperation accords
- Military interventions
- Personal networks
- Media
- Post–Cold War era
- Military operations in the Sahel
- Economic interests today
- Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean
- Opposition
- Cultural references
- Film
- Music
- Literature
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|right|400px|Map showing French colonies, protectorates and mandates (in blue) in Africa in 1945; namely French Equatorial Africa, [[French North Africa, French Somaliland and French West Africa. Along with former Belgian colonies (shown in light blue), these areas today make up the bulk of francophone Africa. ]]
In international relations, '''''' () was France's sphere of influence (or in French, meaning 'backyard') over former French and (also French-speaking) Belgian colonies in sub-Saharan Africa. The term was derived from the expression , which was used by the first president of Ivory Coast, Félix Houphouët-Boigny, in 1955 to describe his country's close ties with France. It was later pejoratively renamed by François-Xavier Verschave in 1998 to criticise the alleged corrupt and clandestine activities of various Franco-African political, economic and military networks, also defined as France's neocolonialism.