French senators adopted a bill on Wednesday to simplify the return of artworks looted during the colonial era to their ...

The self-published book by Virginia Bonin Stiles brings Louisiana’s colonial history to the forefront. Mrs. Stiles follows a ...

Several hundred documents and items revealing the names and other details of victims of slavery in France’s colonial empire is being added to UNESCO’s Memory of the World register. This latest ...

To speak today of the French Colonial Empire is, of course, to speak of something belonging to the past. Juridically speaking, the Empire replaced it by the vague and never clearly defined concept of ...

PARIS — Several hundred documents and items revealing the names and other details of victims of slavery in France’s colonial empire is being added to UNESCO’s Memory of the World register. This latest ...

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In West Africa, where this colonial building now crumbles, the last remnants of the French Empire declared independence with barely any resistance from Paris. 5th: The Spanish Empire, 5.29 million ...

Owen White is a historian of imperialism and colonialism with a particular interest in modern France and its empire. He grew up in the U.K., receiving his B.A. from the University of Exeter and his ...

Like a kind of Gallic Colonel Blimp, Paris’ conservative Le Figaro (circ. 390,000) takes French imperial prestige with deep seriousness. To awaken the same feeling in other Frenchmen, Le Figaro ...

Desiring Whiteness is an award-winning book by historian Caroline Séquin. It explores the intertwined histories of commercial sex work and racial politics in France and the French colonial empire, ...