From en:Image:France colonial Empire10.png List of internet sources (to complete) :

• http://www.tu-dresden.de/sulcifra/quebec/geschqu/paris.htm
• http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~poyntz/India/images/india_shepherd_1923.jpg

Map of the first (light blue) and second (dark blue) French colonial empires. Hatched portions mark spheres of French influence rather than possessions.

Note that the state of France's actual control over much of interior North America west and south of Great Lakes was almost purely nominal.

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