To the great and shrewd old Empire builder, to the man with a brain so extensive that the top of his head is somewhat flat, to Hubert Marshal Lyautey there came four years ago an appropriately ...

General Louis Faidherbe, who ended up becoming the colonial administrator of Senegal, was the first French official to recognize the riches and resources of West Africa, making the region known as a ...

To speak today of the French Colonial Empire is, of course, to speak of something belonging to the past. Juridically speaking, the Empire replaced it by the vague and never clearly defined concept of ...

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When the French presidential elections begin on April 23, the world will be watching closely. Polls are tightening up, but Marine Le Pen, of the far-right National Front (FN) Party, seems likely to ...

Since Japan took advantage of the French collapse to impose “inspectors” on French Indo-China and prevent munitions shipments to China (TIME, July 1), Tokyo has assumed that France’s prize Asiatic ...

French POWs being led away from the battlefield in May 1940. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA The evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in May 1940 from Dunkirk by a flotilla of small ships ...