French Imperialism

At the risk of repeating herself, Gwynnie just has to comment on the News Junkie�s post �France (properly) tries to defend their constructive colonial heritage�

Gwynnie asks us to note, not counting lost conquests in Europe by the Emperor Napoleon (Libs & Eurotrash: note the connection: �Emperor� -> �Empire� -> �imperialist�) that France, with 212,600 square miles and a population of 42,000,000, conquered and controlled colonies with a land area of 4,300,000 sq. miles and aggregate population of 65,000,000.

Hello? Americans are imperialists? The sordid French details:

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The French Colonial Empire

��������� Canada��������� Acadia ��������� Louisiana��������� Terre-Neuve (Newfoundland) including the Iles-de-la- Madeleine and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, the only territory in North America left today under French sovereignty.��������� Saint-Domingue (today's Haiti).��������� Guadeloupe, including la D�sirade, Dominica, La Fr�gate, Marie-Galante, Saint Bartholomew, Saint Martin, les Saintes and a few other rocks.��������� Martinique, including Saint Lucia and Tobago ��������� Grenada has also been French for some time.��������� French Guyana.��������� Alep, ��������� Hatay (Alexandretta), ��������� Lebanon, ��������� Syria and the Sanjak of Damas and the Jabel Druze (Souaida). These territories are included today in the modern states of Syria and Lebanon.��������� Cheik Said's Territory on the Yemenite coast.��������� In the Far East, Annam and Paracel islands, ��������� Cochinchina, (Viet Nam)��������� Laos��������� Cambodia ��������� Tonkin. ��������� Canton, Nanking or Shanghai. ��������� Hank�ou, His-men, Kouang-Tch�ou-Wan and Tien-Tsin.��������� India - The French Crown ruled between 1742 and 1763.

After this date, various smaller territories and enclaves remained under French sovereignty until the 1950s:o������� Pondich�ry (1673-1954) o������� Chandernagor (1686-1951) o������� Mah� (1721-1954) o������� Karikal (1738-1954) o������� Yanaon (1751-1954)�o������� Balassar o������� Cassimibazar o������� Calicut o������� Dacca o������� Gor�ty� o������� Jouqdia o������� Masulipatam o������� Patna o������� Surate

��������� Senegal ��������� Mauritania ��������� French Guinea (now Guinea) ��������� C�te d'Ivoire ��������� French Sudan (now Mali) ��������� Niger ��������� Dahomey (now B�nin) ��������� Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) ��������� Togo ��������� Gabon ��������� Middle Congo ��������� Ubangui Shari (now Centrafrican Republic) ��������� Chad ��������� Cameroon ��������� Algeria��������� Morocco (protectorate)��������� Tunisia (protectorate)��������� Djibouti.��������� R�union ��������� Mauritius ��������� Seychelles islands��������� Madagascar ��������� Comoros��������� New Caledonia��������� Wallis and Futuna islands ��������� New Hebrides (now Vanuatu).��������� French Polynesia (still an overseas territory of the French Republic)