The French colonial empire was the set of territories outside Europe that were under French rule from the 17th century to the late 1970s.
फ्रेंच वसाहती साम्राज्य म्हणजे १७व्या शतकापासून ते १९६० च्या दशकापर्यंतच्या फ्रान्सच्या अधिपत्याखालील प्रदेश.