Before 1850, the colonies already exist: “islands with sugar” for the French and the English, Canada, the Indies, etc Years 1850-80 are those of isolated initiatives: one prefers the control of straits or sea roads to the conquest of territories, considered to be expensive and uncertain: control English road of the Indies by the Cape and Aden and of the straits of the Far East (Singapore).
However, France is established in Algeria (1830) and West Africa (Senegal, 1854), in the Pacific (Marchionesses, 1843; New Caledonia, 1853) and in Cochinchine (1862). Great Britain, it, settles in New Zealand (1840), consolidates its network of counters in Western Africa.

Colonial Empires (1880-1914):
“Hunting for the colonies” accelerates between French and British particularly, but so Belgian, Dutch. In the Mediterranean, vital way since the opening of Suez Canal (1869): control English on Egypt (1882), Kenya and Sudan; control French on Tunisia (protectorate in 1881), then Morocco (1911).

In the Far East, France of Jules Ferry settles in Tonkin and conquers all Indo-China in 1885. Great Britain is established in Burma.
The countries which do not have access there are very bitter: Germany, Italy. certain theoretically independent countries are dominated so much economically that they are not really any more independent: Worsen Othoman (Germany), China (concessions, “station-wagon up China”), Moyen the East. It follows strong colonial competitions from there, between Britanniques and French especially, until 1904 (in 1898, Fachoda); then, after 1904, Franco-German competition: Moroccan businesses (1905 and 1911).
At the end of the day, 2 great colonial Empires are constituted: Great Britain and France, still reinforced after the Large War, since they obtain territorial mandates with the Close relation and Moyen the East. They recover also the German colonies.

These nations are the courses in the colonies.
Thus, in eighteen hundred and fifteen, the French colonial