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Map of the First French Empire in 1812, divided into 130 départements, with the kingdoms of Spain, Portugal, Italy and Naples, and the Confederation of the Rhine and Illyria and Dalmatia Europe in 1812, with the French Empire at its peak before the Russian Campaign
1 First French colonial empire ... 2.1.3 French West Africa. ... India at the height of French influence in 1751.
From the 16th to the 17th centuries, the First French colonial empire stretched from a total area at its peak in 1680 to over 10,000,000 km 2 (3,900,000 sq mi), the second largest empire in the world at the time behind only the Spanish Empire. [1] [2] During the 19th and 20th centuries, the French colonial empire was the second largest colonial ...
From the 16th to the 17th centuries, the First French colonial empire existed mainly in the Americas and Asia. During the 19th and 20th centuries, the second French colonial empire existed mainly in Africa and Asia. France had about 80 colonies throughout its history, the second most colonies in the world behind only the British Empire. [1]
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First French Empire – 1812: Kingdom of France – 1815: Kingdom of France – 1839: French Third Republic – 1914: French Third Republic – 1939: French State (Vichy France) – 1942: Provisional Government of the French Republic – 1945-1949: French Fourth Republic – 1946-1957
It was on a scale of one line to 100 toises, i.e. 1/86,400. The map was, for the time, a real innovation and a decisive technical advance. It is the first map to be based on a geodesic triangulation. Four generations of the Cassini carried out the work, taking more than 6 decades to complete.