Asked to describe French involvement in early settlement of the United States, one might think of explorers Marquette and Joliet, the city of New Orleans and the Louisiana Purchase.

The agreement does not grant France’s 172 years-old Pacific colony independence, either immediately or in the future.

THE TOWNSHIP of Rochester in the Province of New Hampshire was chartered in May 1722. The 253 proprietors who had been ...

The world’s oldest president, Cameroon’s Paul Biya, is running for yet another term. Biya’s autocratic rule stems directly from a brutal colonial war France waged in the 1950s and ’60s while keeping ...

Longley was born in 1674 in Groton, Massachusetts Bay Colony. She was a Puritan woman, Wabanaki captive, Catholic convert and ...

In the Treaty of Paris France ceded Canada to Britain and the Louisiana Territory, including New Orleans, to Spain. Spain gave up its claim to Florida. Shortly after the Treaty, King George issued a ...