Key Point: France wants to build an aircraft carrier. But is it merely symbolic, an expression of la gloire de la France? At the recent Euronaval conference, Defense Minister Florence Parly announced ...

To the great and shrewd old Empire builder, to the man with a brain so extensive that the top of his head is somewhat flat, to Hubert Marshal Lyautey there came four years ago an appropriately ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of modern history’s major empires is falling apart right now, right before our eyes. Yet precious few in the media have reported on this extraordinary event, much less offered any analysis of its ...

With the defeat of France the world’s second largest empire returned to the international crucible. With the British Navy controlling the sea, the French could no longer defend it, the German ...

When Marshal Pétain set up his government at Bordeaux on June 16, the British Government certainly entertained many misgivings. But it did not challenge the right of the new régime to represent the ...