First French Empire

in the 1940’s. At the time Algeria is under French rule. The country’s inhabitants are French Indigenous Algerians, Arabs, and the Pieds-Noirs. The Pied-Noir like the protagonist, Meursault, is a Frenchman born and raised in Algeria. Daoud’s The Meursault Investigation is set in post colonial Algeria. The setting of the two books is pivotal in understanding the underlying theme of racism and sexism towards the Arabs. During colonial Algeria the French people are in power and their attitudes…

new balance of power. For example, the Allies reduced France to her prewar borders and she had given up territories which was conquered by Napoleon I. Moreover, the Allies strengthened the states bordering France as a barrier against the renewal of French aggression. The settlement of 1815 undertaken by the Allies was harsh to France and the country’s power had been reduced. Furthermore, there was a new balance maintained in Europe by the Allies which favoured Britain and Russia. However, the…

From this statement, in 1798 the French Academy dictionary ‘Terrorism as a system or regime of terror’ and ‘Terrorist as an agent or partisan of the Terror that arose through abuse of revolutionary measures ’. Edmund Burke, British politician and philosopher, published in 1796 Letters on a Regicide Peace in which he used the word ‘terrorist’. It marks the first time that the word entered the English language. Consequently, the repressive system…

European Nation. Motivations included finding gold, preventing others from spreading, gaining wealth, gaining political advantage and to spread religion and ideas to the New World. In the Spanish, French and English expansion, each European Nation’s approach was different causing the failure of the French and the English, and leaving the Spanish as the only country to successfully establish colonization in the New World although the Spain’s success was the inspiration for the expansion of the…

1700s through the 1900s, the Atlantic region had many revolutions. The first one being the North American Revolution, which began in 1775 and ended in 1787. Next, was the French Revolution which began in 1789 and lasted until 1815. The French Revolution began by the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen being developed. This declaration fought for the idea that “men are born and remained free and equal in right.” The French and North American Revolutions differed in many ways. A few of…

‘Vive les Boers’: French-Canadian Opposition to the Pro-Anglo Involvement in the Boer War Jessica Afonso HIS311Y Professor Bothwell 7 November 2014 Canada was no longer a colony of the British Empire when the Boer War broke out, but most English-Canadians believed it still had strong economic and social ties with the British Empire. English-Canadians felt proud to support Britain in the Boer war. This essay discourses on French-Canadian involvement in the South Africa “Boer” War and…

Algeria over grain investments. To make matters worse, the Dey of Algeria assaulted a French consul with a “fly-whisk” due to an intense trade negotiation later on April 29,1827. The king of France decides to use this as leverage against Algeria to initiate a blockade on their port. Unhappily, the Dey responds with cannon fire which is when France decides force is necessary (Norastacy n.d.) . Expanding the French empire and distracting their “discontented” subjects; France was very interested in…

people of Algeria to how they wanted them to be, they were unsuccessful in conquering a culture that did not see in them the purifiers that the French thought they were. For France, they took complete control of Algerian government, and annexed it into its own colony where it controlled the trade, and laws of the land. In what France had attempted to do at first, to convert their subjects into Christians, they were unable to do and in this way the Algerian’s were successfully able to resist…

recover from. However, the ideological motivation was of equal— if not greater— importance to French imperialists. French imperialists “…envisioned the creation of a Greater French Empire that would promote what they considered to be the universal ideals of the Enlightenment”; in addition to Enlightenment ideals, these imperialists were also guided by the French republican values that influenced the French Revolution of 1789, summarized in the motto of “liberty, equality, fraternity” (Jones).…

First it looked like that the American and French Revolutions had a lot in common but at the same time many difference. After all both American and French Revolution took place about the same time. Both took the challenge of republican government and the principles of liberty. The French Revolution and American Revolution were the reason why civilians started to rebel against their government. The French and Americans started to rebel against their government in a violent manner. During the…