Realm · 1853–1870

Second French Empire

Second French Empire appears on the map from 1853 to 1870. At its greatest recorded extent, in 1863, it covered about 671,292 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 Second French Empire on the map in 1863 →

On the map

1853–1870

Greatest extent

1863, about 671,292 km²

Part of

Second French Empire

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Wikipedia: Second French Empire · Wikidata Q71092