In recent years, French colonial policy in general has come to have a strongly liberal cast. General de Gaulle's address of December 12, 1943, promising French citizenship to Moslems, and General ...

It was originally known as the “franc of the French colonies of Africa”, betraying France’s original intentions with the ...

HYERES, France (CN) — On Thursday, French President Emmanuel Macron and heads of state will gather in Provence to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the "other D-Day" Allied invasion of France, which ...

Amid stalled talks over New Caledonia, Macron’s summit with Pacific leaders centred on its escalating anti-China agenda.

France’s ‘colonial strategy’ blamed for division in troubled New Caledonia. Three months after the French Pacific territory was rocked by a wave of unrest, an uneasy calm has returned.

In that article we dedicated to the tragic end of the Dutch Prime Minister and his brother in 1672, we explained that the Treaty of Dover, signed between Charles II of England and Louis XIV of France, ...

This may bring to mind the notorious overseas penal colonies of the French Empire (1852–1952), such as Devil’s Island in French Guiana or New Caledonia in the south Pacific, where criminals ...