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 ...

Attacks against the French Muslim community are on the rise as the French state doubles down on anti-Muslim racism.

France left its colonies decades ago, but old habits and presumptions about French power and dominance across a swath of Africa have endured, symbolized by a significant military presence and the ...

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

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.

In just over a decade, enslaved Haitians turned the richest colony in the French empire into the first Black republic through ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

France’s selection of eight uncapped players among a team of unknowns for the first test against New Zealand on Saturday ...

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, ...