Back الاستعمار الفرنسي للأمريكيتين Arabic Colonización francesa d'América AST Colonització francesa d'Amèrica Catalan Frankrigs kolonisering af Amerika Danish Γαλλικός αποικισμός της Αμερικής Greek Colonización francesa de América Spanish استعمارگری فرانسه در قاره آمریکا Persian Colonisation française des Amériques French Kolonizasyon franse nan Amerik HT Kolonisasi Amerika oleh Prancis ID
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France began colonizing the Americas in the 16th century and continued into the following centuries as it established a colonial empire in the Western Hemisphere. France established colonies in much of eastern North America, on several Caribbean islands, and in South America. Most colonies were developed to export products such as fish, rice, sugar, and furs.
The first French colonial empire stretched to over 10,000,000 km2 (3,900,000 sq mi) at its peak in 1710, which was the second largest colonial empire in the world, after the Spanish Empire.[1][2]
As they colonized the New World, the French established forts and settlements that would become such cities as Quebec, Trois-Rivières and Montreal in Canada; Detroit, Green Bay, St. Louis, Cape Girardeau, Mobile, Biloxi, Baton Rouge and New Orleans in the United States; and Port-au-Prince, Cap-Haïtien (founded as Cap-Français) in Haiti, Saint-Pierre and Fort Saint-Louis (formerly as Fort Royal) in Martinique, Castries (founded as Carénage) in Saint Lucia, Cayenne in French Guiana and São Luís (founded as Saint-Louis de Maragnan) in Brazil.
- ^ "Western colonialism - European expansion since 1763". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2021-08-20.
- ^ Havard, Vidal, Histoire de L’Amérique française, Flammarion, 2003, p. 67.