French Empire (French: Empire Français) may refer to:
First French Empire, ruled by Napoleon I from 1804 to 1814 and in 1815 and by Napoleon II in 1815, the French state from 1804 to 1814 and in 1815
Second French Empire, led by Napoleon III, the French state from 1852 to 1870
French colonial empire, the territories administered by France from the 16th century to the mid-20th century
Francia, or the Frankish Empire of Charlemagne, the territory inhabited by the Franks, a West Germanic tribal confederation, from 481 to 843
Empire style, an early 19th-century design movement
Second Empire architecture, a late 19th-century design movement
Topics referred to by the same term
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the French state from 1804 to 1814 and in 1815 Second FrenchEmpire, led by Napoleon III, the French state from 1852 to 1870 French colonial empire, the...
The First FrenchEmpire, officially the French Republic, then the FrenchEmpire (French: Empire Français; Latin: Imperium Francicum) after 1809 and also...
that came under French rule from the 16th century onward. A distinction is generally made between the "First French colonial empire", that existed until...
Second FrenchEmpire was an Imperial Bonapartist regime of Napoleon III from 14 January 1852 to 27 October 1870, between the Second and the Third French Republics...
flourish and a French colonial empire rise. Internally, France was dominated by the conflict with the House of Habsburg and the French Wars of Religion...
Emperor of the French (French: Empereur des Français) was the title of the monarch and supreme ruler of the First and the Second FrenchEmpires. A title and...
the Portuguese Empire in 1822. France has twice transitioned from being called the French Republic to being called the FrenchEmpire while it retained...
Great Britain, but was costly and achieved little for France. France through its French colonial empire, became a superpower from 1643 until 1815; from the...
France was ruled by monarchs from the establishment of the Kingdom of West Francia in 843 until the end of the Second FrenchEmpire in 1870, with several...
First French colonial empire stretched from a total area at its peak in 1680 to over 10,000,000 km2 (3,900,000 sq mi), the second largest empire in the...
during the Consulate and the First FrenchEmpire periods, although its life span lasted until the late-1820s. From France it spread into much of Europe and...
Geographically, it was the third-largest empire in Europe after the Russian Empire and the First FrenchEmpire. The empire was proclaimed by Francis II in 1804...
(1812) France had several puppet states between 1792–1815 (the French First Republic and the First FrenchEmpire) and 1852–1870 (the Second FrenchEmpire)....
the Tricolour (French: Tricolore), although the flag of Ireland and others are also known as such. The design was adopted after the French Revolution, where...
He was the leader of the French Republic as First Consul from 1799 to 1804, then of the FrenchEmpire as Emperor of the French from 1804 until 1814, and...
The Grand Dignitaries of the FrenchEmpire ranked, regardless of noble title, immediately behind the Princes of France. Ennoblement started in 1804 with...
a list of wars involving modern France from the abolition of the French monarchy and the establishment of the French First Republic on 21 September 1792...
had essentially killed the empire. The First Consul of the French republic, Napoleon, assumed the title "Emperor of the French" in 1804. Among others, one...
Charles de Gaulle set up the French Fifth Republic. Into the 1960s decolonization saw most of the French colonial empire become independent, while smaller...
"Empire silhouette" arose over a century later in early 20th-century Britain; here the word empire refers to the period of the First FrenchEmpire (1804–1815);...
The term Angevin Empire (/ˈændʒɪvɪn/; French: Empire Plantagenêt) describes the possessions held by the House of Plantagenet during the 12th and 13th...
The French Union (French: Union française) was a political entity created by the French Fourth Republic to replace the old French colonial empire system...
(1638–1710) FrenchEmpire (1534–1980/present) French colonization of the Americas: France Antarctique (1555–1567) New France (1534–1763) and Quebec French Louisiana...
First French colonial empire stretched from a total area at its peak in 1680 to over 10,000,000 km2 (3,900,000 sq mi), the second largest empire in the...
Slavery in France, and by extension, the FrenchEmpire, covers a wide range of disparate topics. Some of the most notable ones include: In 486, Clovis...
modernization of the French economy and filled Paris with new boulevards and parks. He expanded the French colonial empire, made the French merchant navy the...
the Netherlands (Batavian Republic). During the First FrenchEmpire, while Napoleon I and the French Army occupied much of Europe, such states changed, and...
as iron frameworks and glass skylights. It flourished in the Second FrenchEmpire during the reign of Emperor Napoleon III (1852–1870) and had an important...
September 1870, when the Second FrenchEmpire collapsed during the Franco-Prussian War, until 10 July 1940, after the Fall of France during World War II led to...
Wars (1803–1815) were a series of conflicts fought between the First FrenchEmpire under Napoleon (1804–1815) and a fluctuating array of European coalitions...
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