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French Colonial

French Colonial developed in the settlements of the Illinois Country and French Louisiana.


Colonial Mauritania

The governor general was the head of centralized administrative bureaucracy consisting of a lieutenant governor for each territory, the commandant of a cercle (a colonial administrative subdivision), and chiefs of subdivisions, cantons, and villages.


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Abdallah al-Asbah

He participated in the Great Syrian Revolt against French colonial forces in Syria in 1925, in Al-Qassam Revolt (Izz ad-Din al-Qassam) in Palestine in 1935, and the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine.

Ahmadu

Ahmadu Tall or Ahmadu Seku (1864-1892), the last independent Toucouleur ruler before the arrival of French colonial rule

Alfred Martineau

Alfred Albert Martineau (1857–1941), Governor-General in the French Colonial Empire

Ambinanitelo

The Polish writer and adventurer Arkady Fiedler visited Ambinanitelo in 1937 and resided there for several months, which was the subject of a travel book he wrote on his return to Poland giving a detailed account of the townspeople's daily life and culture, as well as some frictions with the French colonial authorities which he witnessed.

Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt, Jr.

He accompanied U.S. troops in their landing in North Africa in 1942 and soon began to form views on the French colonial administration and the beginnings of Arab nationalism.

Background to the Vietnam War

After the Viet Minh defeated the French colonial army at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954, the French negotiated an end to their presence in Indochina.

Cataraqui, Ontario

The original townsite of what is now downtown Kingston, Ontario, as founded 1673 to house a French colonial military outpost.

Catherine Grand

Catherine Noele Worlée was born in the Danish possession of Tranquebar, Tamil Nadu, India, to a French colonial official stationed at nearby Pondicherry.

Dikhil

When Wilfred Thesiger visited Dikhil in May 1934, he was struck by "a most impregnable fort here" recently constructed by the French colonial authorities.

Ghana Empire

French colonial officials, notably Maurice Delafosse, concluded that Ghana had been founded by the Berbers, a nomadic group origination from the Benu River, from Middle Africa, and linked them to North African and Middle Eastern origins.

Hans Hauck

Rhineland Bastards, the children of French colonial troops occupying the Rhineland and German women.

Henry Bérenger

Under the first government of Léon Blum (in office 4 June 1936 – 22 June 1937) Théodore Steeg was appointed head of a commission to study socio-economic conditions in the French colonial empire.

Indochine

French Indochina, the part of the French colonial empire in Indochina.

Jacmel Arrondissement

Jacmel, a city with many French colonial heritage buildings, was devastated by a 7.0 magnitude tremblor on 12 January 2010, collapsing much of that heritage architecture.

Jean Baptiste Louis DeCourtel Marchand

It is known that Jean was the French military commanding officer of the French colonial trading Fort Toulouse, near present day Wetumpka, Alabama.

Jean Julien Angot des Rotours

Jean Julien Angot, baron des Rotours (2 June 1778 Les Rotours, Orne - 28 March 1844 Paris) was a French colonial governor.

Jean-Talon

It was named after former French colonial administrator of New France, Jean Talon.

Laugier

Léonce Laugier, Governor General for Inde française in the Second French Colonial Empire under Third Republic

Léonce Lagarde

Léonce Lagarde, comte de Rouffeyroux, (1860, Lempdes (Haute-Loire) – 15 February 1936, Paris) was a French colonial governor of French Somaliland and ambassador.

Malartic

Comte de Malartic, a French colonial governor and general in Canada and Mauritius.

Marie Curie High School

Established in 1918 and named after the Nobel prize-winning scientist Marie Curie by the French colonial government, it remains the sole high school in Saigon that still bears its original name.

Michael Grant

Michael Grant, 12th Baron de Longueuil (born 1947), nobleman possessing the only French colonial title recognized by the King or Queen of Canada

Muang Sing

The district has a history of drug trading from at least French colonial times as it is a key transit point for smuggling, lying on a road (known as Opium Road) which connects to Burma and to the Chinese town of Zaho, passing through Oudomxay and Botom.

Ordre du Mérite Indochinois

This award had no status as an official French colonial award but was a local only award for the population of Laos, Cambodia, Tonkin, Cochin China, and Annam.

Phnom Krom

Phnom Krom was at the southern end of the Phnom Krom railway, a narrow-gauge French colonial railway that was most likely constructed to take stone quarried on the now defunct quarries on Phnom Krom to Siem Reap.

Richaud

Étienne Richaud, Governor General for Inde française in the Second French Colonial Empire under Third Republic

Théophile Delcassé

He gave a great impetus to French colonial enterprise, especially in West Africa, where he organized the newly acquired colony of Dahomey, and despatched the Liotard mission to the upper Ubangi.

Vietnam – Germany Hospital

The Hospital was founded in 1904 as a part of Indochina Medical College by the French colonial governor Paul Doumer.

Women in Algeria

Djamila Bouhired and Djamila Boupacha - Algerian revolutionaries and nationalists who opposed French colonial rule of Algeria in the 1960s.