French Empire - Citizendia

Map of the first (light blue) and second (dark blue — plain and hachured) French colonial empires.

The term French Empire can refer to:

The First French Empire of Napoleon I (1804–1814 or 1815)
The Second French Empire of Napoleon III (1852–1870)
The First and Second French Colonial Empire (1830–1960)

The Empire of the French (1804-1814 also known as the Empire of France, Greater French Empire, First French Empire, French Empire, or Napoleon Bonaparte (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821 was a French military and political leader who had a significant impact on the History of Europe. The Second French Empire or Second Empire was the Imperial Bonapartist regime of Napoleon III from 1852 to 1870 between the Second Napoléon III, also known as Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte (full name Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte) (20 April 1808 9 January 1873 was the first President France was a dominant empire in the world from the 1600s to the late 1960s possessing many colonies in various locations around the world

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