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Realm · 1556–1566

France Antarctique

France Antarctique appears on the map from 1556 to 1566. At its greatest recorded extent, in 1564, it covered about 12,370 km².

One of the realms of French Colonial Empire. France's first colonial empire began with Jacques Cartier's voyages to the St Lawrence in 1534 and grew into New France, a vast fur-trading realm reaching down the Mississippi to Louisiana, plus rich sugar islands such as Saint-Domingue worked by enslaved Africans. Defeat by Britain in 1763 cost Canada and most of India, the Haitian Revolution freed Saint-Domingue, and Napoleon sold Louisiana in 1803.

See France Antarctique on the map in 1564

Reference map: LA FRANCE ANTARCTIQVE autrement LE RIO IANEIRO Tirée des Voyages que Villegagnon, et Jean de Leri ont faits au BRESIL Les Années 1557. et 1558
Reference map: LA FRANCE ANTARCTIQVE autrement LE RIO IANEIRO Tirée des Voyages que Villegagnon, et Jean de Leri ont faits au BRESIL Les Années 1557. et 1558 Unknown Unknown or Pierre Duval · Public domain
On the map
1556–1566
Greatest extent
1564, about 12,370 km²
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Wikipedia: France Antarctique · Wikidata Q1353951

Territory through time

YearsArea drawn
1556–156310,750 km²
1564–156612,370 km²

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