French Empire

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:

    “But as some silly young men returning from France affect a broken English, to be thought perfect in the French language; so his Lordship, I think, to seem a perfect understander of the unintelligible language of the Schoolmen, pretends an ignorance of his mother-tongue. He talks here of command and counsel as if he were no Englishman, nor knew any difference between their significations.”
    —Thomas Hobbes (1579–1688)

    “The “paper tiger” hero, James Bond, offering the whites a triumphant image of themselves, is saying what many whites want desperately to hear reaffirmed: I am still the White Man, lord of the land, licensed to kill, and the world is still an empire at my feet.”
    —Eldridge Cleaver (b. 1935)