Following World War II, France struggled to preserve its vast African colonial empire as independence movements, labor ...
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 ...
Long before the United States became involved in Vietnam, France had established a colonial empire in Indochina, transforming ...
When President Leon Mba of Gabon was toppled by the military in 1964, then-French President Charles de Gaulle sprang into action and immediately sent French troops to restore Mba to power. With vast ...
Frances Senate unanimously voted to abolish the Code Noir, a set of 17th-century decrees that regulated slavery in the French ...
Introduction : moving peoples, entangled histories -- A tale of two mountains -- Roots and routes : the paths of Lebanese migration -- Fears of a 'Syrian Guinea' : commerce, contagion and race in ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. vorian Minister of Culture and Francophonie, Françoise Remarck (C-L) and France's Culture Minister Rachida Dati (C-R) at the Musee ...