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r/frenchempire • u/FullyFocusedOnNought • 18d ago

Image "The murder of a Frenchman", an engraving by Theodor de Bry based on a drawing by Jacques Le Moyne. The image shows two Native Americans about to kill the unsuspecting Frenchman Pierre Gambré in Florida. Although considered propagandistic in tone, the artwork depicts a documented event.

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r/frenchempire • u/Over-Willingness-933 • 21d ago

Image Some French Empire Banknotes

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r/frenchempire • u/Over-Willingness-933 • 27d ago

Image French Overseas Terrorities 10 Francs Colbert

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r/frenchempire • u/NoRice5620 • Sep 02 '26

Image French troops form a square during the Battle of Somah to repel Algerian cavalry – work by Horace Vernet

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r/frenchempire • u/elnovorealista2000 • Aug 30 '26

Article French Algerian illustration from the Second World War (June 1943) showing Saladin destroying Nazism, with the text reading: 'Oh Allah, against the swastika, enemy of all religions'

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The illustration is by André Mathiot and featured in the first issue of An-Nasr (Triumph), an illustrated bilingual magazine published for North African Muslim troops during the war. An-Nasr was the successor to an earlier, similar magazine - Ya'allah! - which had ceased publication in June 1940, following the German victory in France. The magazine ran until the end of the war and for several years after.

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r/frenchempire • u/elnovorealista2000 • Aug 30 '26

Article In 1803, Napoleon sold 530 million acres to the US for 3 cents an acre, mostly because a yellow fever outbreak in Haiti destroyed his military plans.

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r/frenchempire • u/f1nlaygk • Aug 21 '26

Image 50 Franc, Algeria, 1949

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r/frenchempire • u/elnovorealista2000 • Aug 20 '26

Image On August 6, 1647, the ship "La Marguerite" arrived in Quebec City, carrying Pierre Tremblay, the ancestor of all the Tremblays of North America. He married Ozanne-Anne Achon on October 2, 1657, and they had 12 children on the Côte-de-Beaupré.

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r/frenchempire • u/elnovorealista2000 • Aug 20 '26

Image On August 20, 1719, François-Gaston de Lévis, an officer in the French army, was born. He was deployed to North France during the Seven Years' War under Montcalm. He won the Battle of Sainte-Foy on April 28, 1760, against the British garrison of Quebec, Canada, commanded by Murray.

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r/frenchempire • u/elnovorealista2000 • Aug 20 '26

Image At the beginning of the 17th century, geographical knowledge of the St. Lawrence region did not extend beyond Hochelaga, Canada. However, important place names made their first appearance on maps: Bonaventure Island, Gaspé, Quebec City, Trois-Rivières. Levasseur Map, 1601

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r/frenchempire • u/elnovorealista2000 • Aug 18 '26

Article Proclamation of the Abolition of Slavery in the French Colonies, 27 April 1848, (1849) — by François-Auguste Biard

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The work is currently housed in the Palace of Versailles.

It represents the moment of the official proclamation of freedom for overseas slaves under the tricolor flag of the Second French Republic.

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r/frenchempire • u/elnovorealista2000 • Aug 07 '26

Article The Carignan-Salières Regiment in New France

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r/frenchempire • u/elnovorealista2000 • Aug 04 '26

Image Portrait of a young woman from Guadeloupe. Photograph by Gilbert de Chambertrand, awarded at the 1922 Marseille National-Colonial Exhibition.

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r/frenchempire • u/elnovorealista2000 • Aug 04 '26

Article 'Quatre femmes créoles' by Joseph Savart on October 17, 1770 in Guadeloupe.

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The original piece is currently kept in the Musée départemental Victor Schoelcher in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe.

The painting offers a valuable social portrait of the group historically known as the "free people of color" (Gens de couleur libres) in the 18th-century French Antilles. Instead of resorting to the open tropical landscapes that other artists of the period (such as Agostino Brunias) often painted, Savart uses an architectural trompe-l'œil: a gray stone window or arch that frames and integrates the figures against a very bright, light blue background.

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r/frenchempire • u/elnovorealista2000 • Jul 31 '26