It explores the nature of this colonial citizenship and enables comparisons with British India, especially the Madras Presidency, as well as the rest of the French empire, as a means of demonstrating how unique the practice of granting such rights was. The difficulties of implementing a new ...
1881-1914: Scramble for Africa sees France build its second colonial empire, focusing on North and West Africa. 20th Century and Beyond 1914-1918: World War I costs France 1.4 million lives but results in the return of Alsace-Lorraine. 1919: Treaty of Versailles imposes harsh terms on Germany...
So although France doesn’t really have French territories in the formal sense of the word, many of the former French colonies that were part of the French empire are now integrated into France as a whole. There are also many, many former colonies that no longer have any ties to France,...
During the Victorian Era, Great Britain had a huge empire. Au cours de l'ère victorienne, la Grande-Bretagne avait un empire immense. Great Britainninformal(the UK)Royaume-Uninm propre great causen([sb],[sth]: deserves charity)grande causenf ...
The division of the Carolingian Empire in 843 created the West Frankish Kingdom, roughly corresponding to the area of modern France. Subsequently, the Franks gave their name to the country (France), the people (Français), and the language. The distinctions between the north and the south, ...
’ Cette partie de l’Armagnac n’a pas de Chemins de fer, les routes comptant une grande circulation sont rares, et la verité est d’autant plus difficile à faire pénétrer que les agents du gouvernement ont été jusqu’ici les premiers à promettre la restauration de l’Empire, à ...
We will first examine the application of legislation in the French colonial empire, then we will look at the different approaches to the problem of the vocational integration of the disabled according to the type of population (indigenous people/French citizens), and finally we will examine the ...
The fall of the Western Roman Empire in the first half of the 5th century was followed by invasions of Provence by the Visigoths, the Burgundians and the Ostrogoths. There was then a long period of wars and dynastic quarrels, which in turn led to further invasions by the Saracens and th...
Irène Némirovsky (French: [iʁɛn nemiʁɔfski]; 24 February 1903 – 17 August 1942) was a novelist of Ukrainian Jewish origin born in Kiev Ukraine under the Russian Empire; she lived more than half her life in France, and wrote in French, but was denied French citizenship. Arre...
The French design motifs have grown from a longing for the cosmopolitan glory experienced during the Ottoman Empire. The Greek identity, also part of the native European identity in Istanbul and Beyo lu was after the wars, pogroms and population ex- changes between Greece and Turkey, not ...