Group of realms · 1800–1804

French Consulate

French Consulate brings together several realms, from 1800 to 1804. At its greatest recorded extent, in 1800, its lands covered about 675,171 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.

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1800–1804

Greatest extent

1800, about 675,171 km²

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