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 ...

Less than a decade after the French Revolution had dismantled centuries of monarchy in the name of liberty, equality and republican ideals, France once again placed supreme authority in the hands of 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 ...

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 ...

In The Military Enlightenment: War and Culture in the French Empire from Louis XIV to Napoleon, Christy Pichichero “aims to bring war and military thought to their proper place in our understanding of ...

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 ...