Map showing first French colonial empire and second French colonial empire. The French Empire extended much outside Europe under French rule from the 17th century to the 1970s. First the French colonial empire after 1809, also known as Napoleonic France, which spread during the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte and the second French Colonial Empire, which was 1852–1870 during the reign of Napoleon III.
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