Category:French Colonies

French Colonial Empire

According to the French constitution from 29 September 1946 was the "Union Française" ("Fourth Republic") composed of

a) the motherland France

b) the Oversea territories (T.O.M. = "Territoires d'Outre-Mer")

- A.O.F. ("Afrique Occidentale Française")

Senegal, Mauritania, Guinea, Soudan, Niger, Ivory Coast, Dahomey, Upper-Volta (was already dissolved in 1932, but redirected in 1947)

- A.E.F. ("Afrique Équatoriale Française")

Gabon, Middle-Congo (consisting of Pointe Noire, Ubangi-Schari, Tchad)

Madagascar (five Provinces and Dependencies)

Dependencies of Madagascar are: Nossi-Bé, St.Marie, the island Europa, Juan da Nova, Barren, Bassas da India, the Glorieuses, the Kerguéles (only a french whaling station) and the Franch Antarctic Territories (how for instance "Adélie")

- the Comores-Archipel (since 1947)

- the French Somali Coast ("Côte Française des Somali")

- the French possessions in India and Oceania

c) the "Départements d'Outre-Mer"

- Réunion

d) the "Général-Gouvernment" Algeria

e) the Mandate territories (UN-mandate territories, since 1946)

- Togo

- Cameroon

f) the Anglo-French condonium "New Hebrides"

e) the Protectorates

- Morocco (Sultanate with separate treatment)

- Tunesia

g) associated states in Indochine

The former term "colonies" was avoided in this document. It existed then/and also today still a fundamental difference between a centralized administration of the French territories and a decentralized administration of the British territories in the world, insofar these areas are not autonomous or independent.