High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The French colonial empire is the set of territories outside Europe that were under French rule primarily from the 17th century to the late 1960s. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the French colonial empire was one of the largest in the world, behind the British Empire, the Russian Empire and the Spanish Empire: it extended over 12,898,000 km2 (4,980,000 sq mi) of land at its height in the 1920s and 1930s. The French colonial empire was the largest empire in 17th century and the Second Empire in 1929. Including metropolitan France in 1929, the total amount of land under French sovereignty reached 13,018,575 km? (5,020,000 sq. miles) but 13,518,575 km2 (5,219,551 sq mi) including Fezzan captured by Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque for Charles de Gaulle, at the time, which is 8.7% (or 9% with Fezzan) of the Earth's total land area. Its influence made French a widely spoken colonial European language, along with English, Spanish, and Portuguese....

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