Sentence examples for French colonies from inspiring English sources

Both countries are also former French colonies.

Many of the former French colonies have close ties.

Then came the Maghrébins — people from the former French colonies of North Africa.

Washington's window for welcoming these leaders, all from former French colonies, could be strictly limited.

Some 78,000 men from French colonies died in the war, many from Algeria and Tunisia.

The few French colonies that rallied to General de Gaulle's Free French movement were strategically unimportant.

Instead, Mr. Senghor favored a federal unity between French Equatorial Africa and the French colonies of West Africa.

"In most of the former French colonies, you now need a permit to export art," Mr. de Monbrison said.

As long ago as end of the 18th century, Napoleon used troops from the French colonies in his Egypt campaign.

From Africa will come Egypt, Sudan, & the old French colonies of Morocco & Tunisia, along with the Belgian Congo.

Bentham was writing in 1789, soon after the French colonies freed black slaves, granting them fundamental rights.