Colonies
- Decolonization
- First Indochina War
- Algerian War of Independence
- French Algeria
- Nationalism and resistance in Algeria
- French Indochina
- French Equatorial Africa
- French West Africa
- French Union
- French Community
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Famous quotes containing the word colonies:
“What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“All Protestantism, even the most cold and passive, is a sort of dissent. But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance; it is the dissidence of dissent, and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
“So that’s our new flag. The thing we’ve been fighting for—thirteen stripes for the colonies and thirteen stars in a circle for the union.”
—Lamar Trotti (1898–1952)