set of territories that were under French rule primarily from the 17th century to the late 1960s
The French colonial empire was a collection of territories across the world that France controlled from the 1600s until the late 1960s. It matters because France's rule over these distant lands shaped global history, affecting millions of people through political control, cultural influence, and economic systems that lasted centuries.
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