French Colonial developed in the settlements of the Illinois Country and French Louisiana.
French | French language | French Revolution | French people | French Navy | French Open | French Foreign Legion | French Resistance | First French Empire | French Army | French and Indian War | French Riviera | Colonial architecture | Old French | French cuisine | French Communist Party | French Air Force | French-speaking Quebecer | French Indochina | French literature | French Polynesia | Dawn French | Colonial Secretary | French Guiana | French Directory | Second French Empire | French Quarter | Colonial Williamsburg | French Alps | French Academy of Sciences |
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.
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 Tall or Ahmadu Seku (1864-1892), the last independent Toucouleur ruler before the arrival of French colonial rule
Alfred Albert Martineau (1857–1941), Governor-General in the French Colonial Empire
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.
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.
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.
The original townsite of what is now downtown Kingston, Ontario, as founded 1673 to house a French colonial military outpost.
Catherine Noele Worlée was born in the Danish possession of Tranquebar, Tamil Nadu, India, to a French colonial official stationed at nearby Pondicherry.
When Wilfred Thesiger visited Dikhil in May 1934, he was struck by "a most impregnable fort here" recently constructed by the French colonial authorities.
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.
Rhineland Bastards, the children of French colonial troops occupying the Rhineland and German women.
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.
French Indochina, the part of the French colonial empire in Indochina.
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.
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, baron des Rotours (2 June 1778 Les Rotours, Orne - 28 March 1844 Paris) was a French colonial governor.
It was named after former French colonial administrator of New France, Jean Talon.
Léonce Laugier, Governor General for Inde française in the Second French Colonial Empire under Third Republic
Léonce Lagarde, comte de Rouffeyroux, (1860, Lempdes (Haute-Loire) – 15 February 1936, Paris) was a French colonial governor of French Somaliland and ambassador.
Comte de Malartic, a French colonial governor and general in Canada and Mauritius.
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, 12th Baron de Longueuil (born 1947), nobleman possessing the only French colonial title recognized by the King or Queen of Canada
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.
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 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.
Étienne Richaud, Governor General for Inde française in the Second French Colonial Empire under Third Republic
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.
The Hospital was founded in 1904 as a part of Indochina Medical College by the French colonial governor Paul Doumer.
Djamila Bouhired and Djamila Boupacha - Algerian revolutionaries and nationalists who opposed French colonial rule of Algeria in the 1960s.