The term French Empire can refer to:
- Two Empires of the French founded by members of the House of Bonaparte,
- The First French Empire of Napoleon I and II (1804–1814 and 1815)
- The Second French Empire of Napoleon III (1852–1870)
- The French colonial empire of the 17th to 20th centuries
- French Empire style
- Second (French) Empire style
- Francia (Frankish Empire) of Charlemagne
Famous quotes containing the words french and/or empire:
“There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even—the French air clears up the brain and does good—a world of good.”
—Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890)
“I date the end of the old republic and the birth of the empire to the invention, in the late thirties, of air conditioning. Before air conditioning, Washington was deserted from mid-June to September.... But after air conditioning and the Second World War arrived, more or less at the same time, Congress sits and sits while the presidents—or at least their staffs—never stop making mischief.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)